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Jean Castex, the Prime Minister hopes to exceed the objective of 10 million vaccinations by April 15 in France.
France recorded 26,343 new cases of contamination by the coronavirus in 24 hours, against nearly 30,000 the day before, according to figures published by the Ministry of Health.
The European authorities are aiming for the entry into service of a health certificate, the "green passport", to facilitate travel within the EU before the summer holidays.
The English variant is said to be 64% more deadly according to a study.
In intensive care, the average age has dropped from 63 years to 55 years.
>> Follow the events of this Monday, March 15, 2021:
7:10.
2,575,849 cases of contamination in Germany since the start of the epidemic.
Germany has identified 6,604 more cases than the day before, according to the Robert Koch Institute (RKI) for infectious diseases.
The institute also reports 47 additional deaths, bringing the total to 73,418 deaths since the start of the epidemic in the country.
7:05 am.
New York pays tribute to its 30,000 deaths from Covid-19.
New York, which is the city in the United States most bereaved by the coronavirus, paid a moving tribute to its 30,258 dead, a year after the start of the pandemic.
“We have lost more New Yorkers than in WWII, the Vietnam War, Hurricane Sandy and 9/11 combined.
Every family has been affected, and for so many families there is pain, raw pain, ”Mayor Bill de Blasio said in a live virtual ceremony, after asking to observe for a minute. silence in homage to the victims.
The virtual ceremony began with a short New York Philharmonic recital, in front of lit candles on the iconic Brooklyn Bridge on a freezing, windy night.
Large black and white photos of the victims were projected onto the bridge.
6.30 a.m.
Report expected on the origins of the epidemic.
WHO investigators are due to publish their report on the origins of the Covid-19 epidemic in the middle of the week, the result of collaboration between specialists mandated by the World Health Organization and Chinese experts.
They had been allowed to conduct the field investigation only a year after the start of the epidemic by the Chinese authorities.
6:20 am.
The Netherlands in turn suspends the AstraZeneca vaccine.
As a precaution, the country has been added to the list of European countries that have suspended injections of AstraZeneca's anti-Covid-19 vaccine as a precaution after serious cases of blood clots in vaccinated adults.
6:15 a.m.
Nearly 70 million people vaccinated in the United States.
With more than 534,275 deaths, the United States is the country most affected by the pandemic.
68.9 million people received at least one dose, and 36.9 million were fully vaccinated, or 11.1% of the nation's population, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Prevention and Control (CDC), main the country's federal public health agency).
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6:10 am.
Italy is reconfiguring.
Italy, which has just exceeded 100,000 deaths from Covid-19, will be three quarters confined.
Italians in the red zones will be confined until April 6, which includes the Easter holidays.
Schools, restaurants, shops and museums will be closed in most of the country.
The country expects an improvement "in the second half of spring", according to its Minister of Health Roberto Speranza.
The peninsula was a year ago the first nation affected in Europe and had imposed a first confinement in the north, then extended to the entire territory.
6:05 am.
BlaBlaCar will relaunch its coaches on March 31.
The BlaBlaCar carpooling platform has announced that it will resume its coach connections in France from March 31.
"We are relaunching the buses at the end of the month, early April, for the Easter holidays," said General Manager Nicolas Brusson.
Tickets are already on sale online, with low prices and flexible exchange conditions, the official assured.
BlaBlaCar intends to offer first 100 destinations in France, that is to say according to Mr. Brusson, "a little less than half of a fully deployed network", before having this summer "a larger bus network than what is available. 'never deployed'.
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