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More than a billion doses of coronavirus vaccines have been administered worldwide over the past five months.
In France, those over 55 can now receive a fourth vaccine, that of the American laboratory Johnson & Johnson, known in Europe under the name of Janssen.
Prime Minister Jean Castex is visiting Roissy airport this Sunday, in order to verify the reinforced controls of the quarantines of travelers from five countries and Guyana, confronted with variants of the coronavirus.
After a forced three-week break, intended to curb the third wave of the epidemic, the children will return to school on Monday, with a strict health protocol.
For middle and high school students, it will be necessary to wait until the following Monday to hope for a return to class and to half-gauge.
Today's events
8:55 am.
New record of cases in India, New Delhi extends confinement.
India identified nearly 350,000 new coronavirus infections over 24 hours on Sunday, a world record, and local authorities have decided to extend confinement in the capital New Delhi by one week.
"We have decided to extend the confinement for a week," announced the head of government of the capital Arvind Kejriwal.
The ravages of the coronavirus continue and there is no respite.
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8:38. “All precautions are taken” with regard to travelers, assures Jean Castex from Roissy.
"We are required to take care of our own citizens", declared the Prime Minister, during a short press briefing from the Ile-de-France airport, ensuring that all passengers coming from a list of five countries confronted with variants (Brazil, Chile, India, South Africa and Argentina) as well as Guyana, “are all the subject of a test” and are targeted by a prefectural order of quarantine for 10 days.
"All precautions are taken", assured Jean Castex, specifying that sequencing is carried out on the tests carried out on these travelers, to determine the existence of variants, in particular Brazilian, Indian and South African.
“We have started the battle against the variants, which are a threat.
[…] I note that the variants, in particular Brazilian and South African, tend to regress, it is imperative to keep this line ”, he also declared.
8:35 am.
Jean Castex arrested by a traveler
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During his trip to the airport, the Prime Minister was arrested by a traveler who criticized him for the slowness of the tests and the arrival of their results, when traveling "with very old people or with children downstairs. age ".
Reinforced measures on arrival: at Roissy, Jean Castex questioned by a traveler about the slowness of the tests when exiting the plane pic.twitter.com/nv3hLda4Iq
- BFMTV (@BFMTV) April 25, 2021
8:28.
The Prime Minister arrived at Roissy airport this Sunday morning
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He intends "to ensure the proper implementation of the border measures decided by the Government to limit the spread of the main variants of the coronavirus", indicates Matignon.
8:15 am.
In Guadeloupe, worsening of the situation and tightening of restrictions.
A certificate will be necessary in particular for any exit beyond a radius of 10 kilometers, while the hospital tension "worsens sharply", according to the Regional Health Agency.
8 hours.
At least 23 dead in hospital fire in Iraq.
At least 23 people were killed in a fire started overnight from Saturday to Sunday in an intensive care unit treating Covid-19 patients in Baghdad.
The explosion is due to a "breach of safety conditions in the storage of oxygen cylinders", explained medical sources, reporting dozens of injured.
More images of the scene where fire broke out in Ibn Al-Khatib hospital south of baghdad for coronavirus patients due to Oxygen Tank explosion.
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- Suribelle (@ Suribelle1) April 24, 2021
Videos posted on social media showed firefighters attempting to extinguish flames on the floors of Ibn al-Khatib hospital on the south-eastern outskirts of Baghdad amid a mob of the sick and relatives trying to escape from the building.
7.45 a.m.
Greece is counting on its “Covid-free” islands to restart tourism.
Greece has worked hard to complete as a priority the vaccination of dozens of small islands in the Aegean and Ionian Sea, before the vaccination of larger ones, welcoming millions of tourists each year, in view of the official opening of the tourist season in mid-May.
The opening of the café and restaurant terraces is scheduled for May 3.
The mandatory seven-day quarantine has been lifted since Monday for travelers who are permanent residents of member countries of the European Union, the Schengen area, the United Kingdom, the United States, Israel, Serbia and the Arab Emirates united, but visitors must have a vaccination certificate or a negative test for coronavirus within 72 hours.
7:30 am.
Double mask compulsory for shopping in Peru.
Peru ordered on Monday the compulsory use of two masks simultaneously, inside shops and other heavily populated places, according to a decree published on Saturday.
This measure is in addition to the mandatory use of a transparent visor in these same establishments, imposed by the government on Monday.
7:20 a.m.
One billion doses of vaccines administered.
More than a billion doses of anti-Covid vaccines have been administered worldwide, less than five months after the start of the first mass vaccination campaigns in December, according to an AFP count made on Saturday.
Read alsoVaccination for priority professions: "We must stop quibbling with the AstraZeneca"
7:10.
New world record for cases.
Nearly 900,000 new cases of coronavirus were identified worldwide on Saturday, a record figure mainly due to the epidemic outbreak in India.
More than a third of the additional contaminations recorded, or about 340,000, were recorded on Indian territory.
7h00.
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