DIRECT. Covid-19: eve of the first reconfigurations on weekends in Dunkirk and in the Alpes-Maritimes

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• Twenty departments are causing concern to the authorities, who may announce new restrictions there next week.

  Paris city hall has already proposed a three-week confinement.

• Nearly 22,000 new cases are now recorded every day on average in France, up 15% in one week.

• The United States is "several weeks ahead" on the vaccination program, welcomed US President Joe Biden.

  In France, four million injections were carried out in two months, two thirds of which were first doses.

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February

26

, 2021

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6:40 am.

First reconfigurations at weekends in France.

The inhabitants of Dunkirk and the coast of the Alpes-Maritimes will be the first concerned from this Friday evening.

Nearly 25 million people living in the 20 departments under "enhanced surveillance" could join them from next weekend.

6:25 am.

Brazil crosses the threshold of 250,000 deaths from Covid-19.

According to

the figures of the Ministry of Health, considered to be greatly underestimated by the scientific community, 251,498 deaths were recorded in one year, after 1,541 additional deaths in the last 24 hours.

For a month, Brazil has reported an average of more than 1,000 deaths per day with the occurrence of a second wave which, in seven states, is already more deadly than the first last year.

6:15 am.

The United States

" 

ahead of several weeks

 "

on the vaccination schedule.

“I'm here today to say we're halfway there, with 50 million doses in just 37 days since I became president.

[…] It is several weeks in advance, ”welcomes Joe Biden.

Since the start of this campaign, about 47 million Americans have been vaccinated and nearly half of them have received two doses, according to the latest figures from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

6:10 am.

Sad birthday.

One day ago, the first Frenchman died of Covid19.

This 60-year-old teacher from Oise was transferred urgently to Pitié-Salpêtrière in Paris.

One year later, more than 85,000 deaths were recorded in hospitals or nursing homes.

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