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Covid: Macron leaves the Elysée in isolation in Versailles

2020-12-18T10:10:36.261Z


The French president has moved to the official residence of the heads of state. Record of deaths in the USA: 3,200 in 24 hours. Free vaccine in New Zealand. Austria towards the third total lockdown. Peak of infections in Germany, over 33 thousand in one day (ANSA)


French President Emmanuel Macron, positive for Covid-19, left the Elysée tonight to continue quarantine at the official residence of the heads of state in Versailles, "La Lanterne".

The presidency underlines that Macron - who left without the première dame Brigitte - "will be able to isolate himself and continue working".

According to the Eliseol, Macron - who must remain in solitary confinement at least 7 days - has a cough and complains of severe fatigue and some fever.

New record of infections from Covid in

Germany

, with 33,777 new infections in 24 hours, according to the daily report of the Robert Koch Institut.

With 813 victims, Germany reaches the second highest in two weeks.

Austria

 is moving towards the third total lockdown, after the one in spring and the one in November.

According to the Austrian press, the government will hold a videoconference with the laender this afternoon to stop the whole country again from December 27 to January 10.

Shops and public establishments will close and there will be a 24-hour curfew.

At this point - despite the resistance of some laender - the reopening of the ski facilities, scheduled for December 24th, would also skip.

Today there will also be talk of a new mass screening in January.

The

United States

again recorded a heavy toll of more than 3,200 deaths and nearly 250,000 new coronavirus infections in one day, according to data from the American University Johns Hopkins.

In the past 15 days, the limit of 200,000 cases per day has been exceeded 12 times.

Yesterday, 3,249 deaths and 247,544 new cases were recorded.

It is the fourth time in 10 days that the US has crossed the threshold of 3,000 daily deaths.

The total toll is over 310,000 deaths.

In

Russia

in the last 24 hours, 28,552 infections of Covid-19 and 611 deaths caused by the disease have been ascertained: the national anticoronavirus operations center reports.

The areas with the highest number of new cases are Moscow, with 6,937 infections, St. Petersburg, with 3,757, and the Moscow region, with 1,485.

According to official data, the subject of numerous criticisms, the people who died of Covid-19 in Russia are a total of 49,762.

Since the beginning of the epidemic, 2,228,633 cases of Covid have been confirmed in the country. 

The cases of Covid-19 confirmed in

Ukraine

continue to increase

, where in the last 24 hours 12,630 new infections and 260 deaths caused by the disease have been detected.

Yesterday 12,047 cases were announced during the previous day, Wednesday 10,622 and Tuesday 8,416.

According to data from the Ministry of Health, since the beginning of the epidemic in the former Soviet republic, 944,381 cases of Covid-19 have been recorded and 16,256 people have died from the Sars-Cov-2 virus.

The

Brazilian

returns to record more than a thousand deaths in a day to Covid-19, a figure that was not surpassed by 15 September.

The victims in the last 24 hours have been 1,092, according to the Ministry of Health.

The total toll rises to 184,827 since the start of the pandemic.

There were 69,826 new infections, for a total of 7,110,434.

The Brazilian Supreme Court has extended to the governors of individual states and mayors the possibility of imposing the mandatory vaccination against Covid-19, under penalty of administrative penalties.

The supreme judges, by 10 votes to one, also found forced vaccination unconstitutional.

The

New Zealand

will begin to offer the vaccine free of anti Covid-19, for the middle of next year, the entire population of 5 million and island nations of the Pacific, including the Cook Islands, Samoa, Tonga and Tuvalu.

This was announced by Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern, specifying that the distribution will count on two new agreements signed with the pharmaceutical companies AstraZeneca and Novavax.

The agreements ensure access to 7.6 million doses from AstraZeneca, enough for 3.8 million people, and 10.72 million doses from Novavax, enough for 5.36 million people.

Both vaccines require two doses.


Source: ansa

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