> The essential:
18,109 deaths were recorded worldwide yesterday, a record that shows the pandemic is not ebbing.
In France, the health authorities have identified 351 deaths, as many as the day before,
1,933 new patients were admitted yesterday to a hospital in France.
More than 3,100 patients are in intensive care.
Prime Minister Jean Castex begins consultations on Thursday to weigh the pros and cons of a new turn of the sanitary screw.
Difficult to decide: the restrictions weigh more and more on the morale of everyone, especially students, whose overall psychological state alarms.
> Follow the news of this Thursday, January 28, 2021 live:
6:55 am.
Castex begins his talks.
Reconfiner or not?
The Prime Minister receives Geoffroy Roux de Bezieux (Medef), Alexandre Saubot (France Industrie), Christiane Lambert (FNSEA) then dialogue by videoconference with the liaison committees of the Senate and the Assembly, and associations of elected officials.
6:50 a.m.
The Senate extends the state of health emergency until May 3.
The current state of emergency is due to end on February 16.
Senators opted for one month less than the deadline voted by the National Assembly.
The Minister of Health asked that he run until June 1, a date "consistent with the dynamics of the epidemic", adding that "it is the time necessary for the vaccination campaign to fully produce its effects ".
6:40 am.
Sad record.
From January 20 to 26, the world recorded 101,366 deaths.
It is the deadliest week since the start of the epidemic.
Yesterday, 18,109 deaths were recorded around the world, in countries that keep statistics.
6:35 am.
The Discovery study stops testing Remdesivir for lack of effectiveness.
It was a shuttle of hope in the spring, during the first wave, when inconclusive studies abound.
Finally, the European clinical trial Discovery, which tests the effectiveness of drugs against Covid-19, "stops testing remdesivir", an antiviral treatment initially deemed promising, "for lack of evidence of its effectiveness", announced Wednesday evening the 'Inserm in a press release.
6.30am.
The variants are spreading.
The English variant has been detected in 70 countries, the South African variant in 31. Scientists consider the first 50% more contagious than the original strain, and the second 30%.
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6:20 am.
Suspension of Ethiopian Airlines flights to France.
The French government will suspend Ethiopian Airlines flights for four days, the Ethiopian company not having sufficiently controlled the PCR tests of passengers entering France.
6:10 am.
Hello and welcome to this live.
A year that punctuates our lives, well obliged to give it all its importance.
This Thursday again, it saturates hospitals in many countries of the world.