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In France, 409 deaths from the new coronavirus have been recorded in the last 24 hours in hospital.
A total of 97,301 people have died since the start of the epidemic.
Health authorities have identified 30,639 people hospitalized for a Covid-19 infection.
Among them, 5,626 patients are hospitalized in critical care, figures which are constantly increasing.
"I did not condition the reopening of schools on health indicators," Emmanuel Macron told Le Parisien.
The objective is indeed a resumption of classes on April 26 for the youngest and on May 3 for middle and high schools.
The first day of a week of distance learning turned into a nightmare for hundreds of thousands of students and their teachers facing serious connection problems.
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8:42 am.
"The debate must take place on the vaccination passport, but it is too early, we must have enough vaccinated"
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Barbara Pompili, Minister for the Ecological Transition on BFMTV.
8:38.
“After six weeks of restrictions in the PACA region, the situation is improving but we remain on a high plateau,” underlines Renaud Muselier.
8:35 am.
"I hope with all my heart that this is the last confinement because the penalization of our young people is terrible"
, declares on France Info
Renaud Muselier, president of the southern Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region and president of the Regions of France.
🗣️ It is "essential" that schools reopen on April 26: "I hope that the president will be right because the penalization of our young people is terrible", declares Renaud Muselier, president of the South Provence-Alpes-Côte d 'region Azur
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8:30 am.
Vaccination in Chile: 56.5% efficacy after two doses, 3% after one dose.
The current anti-covid vaccination in Chile, mainly based on the Chinese Coronavac vaccine, shows an efficacy of 56.5% against infections two weeks after the injection of the second dose, but no significant effect after the first, according to a study made public.
8:14.
Crisis: "resist the temptation of early retirement", according to an OECD economist.
Companies should avoid resorting to the "easy solution" of departing seniors during restructuring because there is a risk of loss of skills and transmission to young people, believes Andrea Garnero, economist at the employment department of the company. 'OECD.
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8:06 am.
"We will be able to produce 250 million doses by the end of the year,"
said Agnès Pannier-Runacher, the Minister of Industry in charge of France Info.
The Minister is delighted with the bottling of vaccines against Covid-19 by several French industrial sites, which starts today.
These doses will then be returned to the European common pot.
7:55 am.
In Brazil, prostitutes ask to be vaccinated as a priority.
Prostitutes from Belo Horizonte, a city in southeastern Brazil, are starting a symbolic strike, with demonstrations demanding to be included in the groups to be vaccinated as a priority against Covid-19.
“We are on the front line, we run the economy and we take risks.
We have to get vaccinated, ”says Cida Vieira, president of the Association of Prostitutes of Minas Gerais (Aspromig).
According to her, more than 2,000 prostitutes have joined the movement, in this state of which Belo Horizonte is the capital.
7:36.
One in three patients suffers from subsequent psychological or neurological problems.
One in three people who have overcome Covid-19 have been diagnosed with neurological or psychiatric disorders within six months of infection, according to the largest study to date on the mental toll of former Covid patients.
Anxiety (17%) and mood disorders (14%) were the most common diagnoses, according to the study, which appeared on Wednesday in the specialist journal The Lancet Psychiatry.
The incidence of neurological damage such as cerebral hemorrhage (0.6%), stroke (2.1%) and dementia (0.7%) was overall lower, but the risk was generally higher among patients who had been seriously ill.
7:25 am.
Amnesty calls for a start in the face of the “quasi-monopoly” of the rich countries.
Faced with the low hand of rich countries on vaccines against the coronavirus, Amnesty International on Wednesday calls on the international community to correct the situation “immediately”, worrying about the consequences of the failure of the world's ability to cooperate.
In its 2020/2021 report, the human rights NGO draws up a severe assessment of a year turned upside down by the Covid-19 pandemic: everyone for themselves is generalized penalizing the most vulnerable and aggravating inequalities but also accentuating repression in some countries for health reasons.
"The pandemic has thrown a harsh light on the inability of the world to cooperate effectively and equitably", underlines in the preamble the French Agnès Callamard, appointed at the end of March secretary general of the organization.
7:07 am.
Record of contaminations in Argentina.
The number of coronavirus contaminations recorded in Argentina in the last 24 hours is 20,870, a record since the start of the epidemic in this country, announces the Ministry of Health.
During the same 24-hour period, the authorities counted 163 deaths, bringing the overall death toll to 56,634, and the total number of contaminations identified since March 2020 is 2,428,029.
Faced with the second wave of the epidemic in Argentina, the Minister of Health, Carla Vizzotti, deems it necessary during a press conference to take "intensive" protective measures, but "without impacting trade and production, and education as little as possible ”.
6:58 am.
Saturated hospitals in most areas in Brazil.
In Sao Paulo, the most populous city and the economic capital of the country, buses usually reserved for school transport began to be used to transport corpses.
The cemeteries there are so overwhelmed that burials take place at night to cope with the continuous influx of new bodies to be buried.
Despite this catastrophic health situation, far-right President Jair Bolsonaro, widely criticized for his chaotic management of the pandemic, continues to question the restrictions imposed by mayors and state governors.
In the absence of real coordination at the national level, each city and each State ends up taking often insufficient and sometimes contradictory measures.
6:45 a.m.
More than 4,000 deaths in 24 hours in Brazil, a record.
Brazil crossed for the first time Tuesday the threshold of 4,000 deaths from Covid-19 in a single day, with 4,195 deaths recorded in 24 hours, a new record, according to the latest official report from the Ministry of Health.
The country of 212 million people is the second most bereaved in the world in absolute numbers, after the United States, with a total of 336,947 deaths.
Brazil is also the second largest in the world in terms of contamination, with 13,100,580 confirmed cases, 86,979 in the last 24 hours.
The pandemic seems totally out of control in the largest country in Latin America, where disastrous records have been broken day after day for several weeks.
6:40 am.
Emmanuel Macron: "It is essential that we resume classes on April 26"
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"I did not condition the reopening of schools on health indicators," the president told Le Parisien, after attending an online lesson for students in 3rd year.
He also maintains the objective of May 3 to reopen middle and high schools.
Find here the declarations of the Head of State.
6.30 a.m.
409 new deaths in France in the last 24 hours.
A total of 97,301 people have died since the start of the epidemic.
6:25 am.
In France, 5,626 patients in critical care.
This is 15% more than “the peak of the second wave”.
632 patients have entered these services in the last 24 hours.
Beyond that, the health authorities have identified 30,639 people hospitalized for a Covid-19 infection.
6:20 am.
Home school: why this first day was so chaotic.
The first day of a week-long distance learning course on Tuesday turned into a nightmare.
A possible cyberattack and an influx of connections prevented hundreds of thousands of students and their teachers from ensuring educational continuity.
Read our decryption of the situation here.
6:10 am.
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Le Parisien accompanies you throughout this day of Wednesday April 7, 2021 to follow the news related to Covid-19.