DIRECT. Covid-19: Joe Biden sets up a crisis unit

The essential :

• France surpassed the 40,000 Covid-19-related deaths officially recorded since the start of the epidemic on Saturday, according to data published by the French public health agency (SPF).

• The restrictions continue to multiply in Europe, and on Saturday provoked demonstrations of rejection, as in Madrid, even violence in Leipzig (Germany).

• The pandemic has killed at least 1,243,513 people worldwide since the end of December, according to a report released on Saturday midday.

  More than 49.3 million cases of infection have been officially diagnosed.

• Behind the United States, the country most affected with 237,016 deaths, follow Brazil (162,269), India (125,562), Mexico (94,323) and the United Kingdom (48,475).

• Joe Biden announced the establishment on Monday of a crisis cell on the coronavirus, bringing together scientists and experts.

• Scientifically, concerns have arisen after the discovery in twelve people in Denmark of a mutant version of SARS-CoV-2 transmissible to humans, from mink farms.

  As a precaution, the United Kingdom announced Saturday to close its borders to travelers from this country.

Live events:

8h.

Portugal will impose a curfew from Monday.

The state of health emergency that will come into force on Monday in Portugal will be accompanied in most of the country by a weekday nighttime curfew, which will begin at 1 p.m. on weekends, for at least two weeks, announces the Prime Minister Antonio Costa.

This "ban on driving on public roads" will apply in the 121 municipalities subjected since Wednesday to new confinement and where approximately 70% of the Portuguese live.

7:50 am.

Bruno Le Maire's response to traders.

After the open letter from traders in the JDD, asking for a ban on Black Friday and a reopening from November 12, the Minister of the Economy warns that a reopening "can only be considered with new sanitary rules ”, in an interview given to the same Sunday daily.

"Taking Amazon as a scapegoat is not the solution: this player represents only 20% of online commerce in France," said Bruno Le Maire.

To encourage the digitization of small local shops, the government plans to list, as of Tuesday, existing solutions on the clique-mon-commerce.gouv.fr site.

7:30 am.

Containment: federations of traders demand a ban on Black Friday.

Four federations of downtown stores and shopping centers are asking the government to restrict online sales "only to basic necessities" and to ban "Black Friday", in a column published in the Sunday Journal.

They are also asking to be able to reopen “non-essential” businesses from 12 November.

In this forum, the French Federation of Trade Associations (FFAC), the National Federation of Town Centers “Vitrines de France” (FNCV) and the National Council of Shopping Centers (CNCC) agree that the closure of shops said "non-essential" dangerously advantage e-commerce platforms already regularly accused of unfair competition, such as Amazon and Alibaba.

7:20 a.m.

Saint-Pierre-et-Miquelon: septaine for all arrivals.

Ten days after the announcement of the reconfinement at the national level, the prefect of Saint-Pierre-et-Miquelon Thierry Devimeux announces the introduction of mandatory quarantine measures of seven days for all travelers arriving in the territory.

Anyone now arriving by plane in this archipelago in the North Atlantic, only accessible via Montreal, must undergo seven days of strict and controlled isolation before taking a PCR test at the end of this period.

Certain exceptions will be possible.

7:10.

Crisis staff in the United States.

The President-elect of the United States, Joe Biden, announces that he will set up a coronavirus crisis unit on Monday, bringing together scientists and experts, to combat the main challenge currently facing the American executive.

"On Monday, I will set up a group of scientists and experts" to work "on a plan that will come into effect on January 20, 2021", the day of his inauguration, says Biden in front of a crowd of gathered supporters in Wilmington, Delaware to celebrate his victory.

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