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In France, 258 people have died from the new coronavirus in the past 24 hours, bringing the total toll since the start of the epidemic to 35,018 dead.
More than 2,700 Covid-19 patients are now hospitalized in intensive care, a figure that had not been reached since April.
While a Defense Council is due to be held this Tuesday, elsewhere in Europe, several countries are already using new containments or very strict measures to fight the pandemic.
The National Assembly voted on the night of Monday to this Tuesday i the billions of euros of the recovery plan, supposed to allow France to bounce back from the recession.
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6:56 am.
D
econd day without any cases of coronavirus in Melbourne.
Melbourne recorded no new cases of coronavirus on Tuesday, for the second day in a row, as Australia's second largest city is preparing to end three months of confinement.
This is the first time since the beginning of March that no new case has been confirmed in 48 hours in this city of 5 million inhabitants hit this summer by a second epidemic wave.
6:45 am.
MPs vote on the recovery plan.
While the health and economic outlook continues to darken, the National Assembly voted on the night of Monday to Tuesday the billions of euros of the recovery plan, supposed to allow France to bounce back from the recession.
Of the 100 billion euros announced from 2020 to 2022, the “recovery plan” mission aims to release 22 billion credits in 2021, around three “pillars”: “ecology”, “competitiveness” and “territorial cohesion” .
Other investments appear elsewhere, such as the upgrading of hospital careers, integrated into the Social Security budget, or the 10 billion reduction in corporate production taxes, voted in the first part of this 2021 finance bill.
6:35 am.
More drastic curfew, re-containment… 4 scenarios under the microscope.
Epidemiologist, emergency physician, president of the Academy of Medicine… We submitted to specialists four solutions envisaged to reduce the circulation of the virus.
Read our decryption here.
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6:25 am.
In France, 258 new deaths in the past 24 hours.
Public Health France had initially announced 257 deaths before correcting this figure to 258. The total toll since the start of the epidemic is 35,018 deaths.
6:15 am.
2,700 new hospitalizations in intensive care.
More than 2,700 Covid-19 patients are hospitalized in intensive care, 357 new serious cases having been admitted to these services in the last 24 hours, a figure that had not been reached since April, according to Public Health France.
The test positivity rate continues to increase to 17.8%, against 17% the day before, and only 4.5% at the beginning of September.