The essential
The best: Thursday, 21,712 new cases were identified in 24 hours, or 19,386 per day on average over the past week.
This is the first time that the daily average has fallen below 20,000 since February 20.
This number is however slightly underestimated because it includes May 1, a public holiday.
Sadly, 222 people have died.
The number of patients in intensive care continues to decline, slowly.
We went from 5,804 last week to 5,402 on Wednesday and 5,231 patients yesterday.
In France, yesterday, 17.1 million people had received at least one injection of vaccine, and 7.3 two injections, according to the General Directorate of Health.
From Wednesday, it will be possible, regardless of age or health problem, to be vaccinated on slots left vacant by priority people.
The return of tourism?
The government wants to reopen international flights in mid-June, thanks to the Health Pass.
The American proposal to lift the patents on anti-coronavirus vaccines has the support of France, the WHO, the WTO, Russia, a little less the European Union.
It could run up against Germany's disagreement.
Today's events
11:00. The Hong Kong authorities are ready to do anything to vaccinate.
Only around 14% of Hong Kong's 7.5 million people have received at least one dose of the vaccine since the launch in February. The people of Hong Kong are very reluctant to be vaccinated, the epidemic having been very controlled on the peninsula. To encourage them, the authorities are offering extended hours in bars and karaoke bars for vaccinated people. And now, they will spend less time in quarantine in case of contact with an infected person: seven days of quarantine instead of 10, which remains followed by 7 days of home self-monitoring.
10:45 am. Hope in Germany.
Health Minister Jens Spahn ruled this morning that the third wave seemed "broken" in Germany with a slight decline in the number of cases. “The trend of the last few weeks has been confirmed. The third wave seems broken, ”assured the Conservative minister at a press conference.
10:30 am. Le Printemps de Bourges maintained, from June 22 to 27.
"We wanted to want: it was unthinkable to do two white editions in a row," said festival director Boris Vedel to AFP. Catherine Ringer, Alain Souchon or even Feu! Chatterton will be headlining. "The artists have all agreed to play with gauges at 65% and according to the elements in place, we must be able to complete our budget," he continues. Printemps, which attracted 200,000 people for its last real edition in 2019, will only be able to welcome 10,000 festival-goers this year at best.
10:25 am.
Little by little, American employment is reconstituting itself.
The figures have to be corroborated by the Department of Labor but in April the US created 978,000 non-farm jobs, after 916,000 in March.
A year ago, the U.S. economy shed a record 20.6 million jobs amid orders to shut down non-essential businesses to slow the first wave of the epidemic.
10:10 am.
8,386 contaminations and 376 deaths in 24 hours in Russia.
The official toll, contradicted by another statistical organization, now stands at 112,622 deaths since the appearance of the virus and 4,863,514 infections.
10 hours. Esther Duflo says yes to free vaccines, for the poorest.
The lifting of patents on vaccines against Covid-19 is a good idea that "puts pressure on pharmaceutical groups," said Nobel laureate in economics Esther Duflo in an interview with the Italian daily La Repubblica. But this sharing must absolutely benefit first of all the poorest countries where the Covax program will be insufficient.
9:55 am.
London changes its AstraZeneca strategy.
As a precaution, any Briton under 40 who has received a first dose of the Anglo-Swedish vaccine, will receive a second dose of another vaccine.
Yet, according to AP, the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunization (JCVI) and the Health Products Regulatory Agency, the MHRA should claim not to have raised any new issue related to this vaccine.
As of April 28, the MHRA has received 242 reports of blood clots with low platelet counts out of the 28.5 million doses of AstraZeneca administered.
Of the 242 people affected, 49 died.
9.45 a.m. The astonishing Japanese vaccine strategy before the Olympics.
The administrative procedures being very long in Japan (read below at 8:30 am), the Japanese government has only authorized the Pfizer vaccine. But according to Reuters, 4 of the 28 million doses received in April were used. The country has only vaccinated 2.2% of its population so far, while the goal is to vaccinate 36 million elderly people by July. This would require 800,000 doses per day, whereas, on the right days, less than 400,000 are currently injected.
9:30 am.
The gardens of Vaux le Vicomte reopen tomorrow.
The 33 hectare park surrounding the castle remained closed by decision of the owners.
The 10 km limit reduced the number of potential visitors, explained to the Parisian at the end of March one of the three brothers who owned the site built in Seine-et-Marne by Nicolas Fouquet in the 17th century.
Please note, online reservation (here) is a compulsory prerequisite.
9:20 a.m.
4,992 classes closed in France.
According to the Ministry of National Education, 4,992 classes are closed out of 528,400, as well as 32 schools.
Over the past seven days, 768 staff and 9,536 students have been infected with covid.
The 207,554 tests performed between April 26 and May 3 showed a positivity rate of 0.18%.
9 hours.
In France, employment is holding up.
Private salaried employment grew by 0.3% in the first quarter, or 57,300 net job creations, according to the provisional estimate by INSEE.
In the previous quarter, salaried employment had experienced a moderate decline of 0.1% (28,800 net destruction), and in total in 2020, 320,200 jobs were destroyed in the private sector in France, a decrease of 1, 6%.
8:50 am.
The shortage of beds is spreading in India.
The situation observed in Delhi in recent weeks is now being suffered elsewhere.
In the city of Chennai (south), one in a hundred beds with oxygen and two in a hundred beds in intensive care units were vacant last night.
In Bangalore, there were only 23 intensive care beds left and one in 50 beds with a ventilator.
8:40 am. India and its millions of infected people.
With 400,000 new contaminations in 24 hours, India has exceeded 1.57 million contaminations in seven days, proof that the second wave is cataclysmic. According to medical experts, the reality is five to ten times higher in the country of 1.3 billion people. Infections are now spreading from overcrowded cities to remote rural villages where nearly 70% of the population lives.
8:30 am. Patience and length of time ...
In Japan, according to the financial daily Nikkei, the Ministry of Health is to hold a meeting on May 20 to consider the authorization of the AstraZeneca and Moderna vaccines. To date, only Pfizer BioNTech has received government approval. Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga has pledged to provide enough doses of vaccine to the country's 126 million people by June, before the start of the Tokyo Olympics on July 23.
8:20 am. 132 million first-time vaccinated in India.
Unlike the statistics of contamination and death, difficult to believe given the weakness of tests - not even 2 million per day - and deficiencies in the civil status system, those of vaccines are supported by laboratories. Yesterday, 132 million Indians had received a first dose of the coronavirus vaccine, and 32.8 million both doses. But the pace is decreasing: "after reaching a rate of around 4 million per day, we have now fallen to 2.5 million per day due to vaccine shortages," laments Amartya Lahiri, professor of economics at the University. of British Columbia in the Mint Journal.
#LargestVaccineDrive
✅ India's Cumulative Vaccination Coverage exceeds 16.48 Cr doses.
✅ More than 2.62 lakh beneficiaries of age group 18-44 Vaccinated today till 8 pm.
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- Ministry of Health (@MoHFW_INDIA) May 6, 2021
8:10 am.
On the agenda.
Britain must today give the list of countries it does not subject to quarantine.
8 hours.
India registers 414,188 new contaminations.
Yesterday, it was 412,262. According to medical experts and statisticians, it is five to ten times less than reality, which would therefore be between 2 and 4 million infections per day.
In addition, 3,915 people died yesterday, according to data from the Ministry of Health.
Read also Covid-19: officially nearly 4,000 dead in 24 hours in India, the reality five to ten times worse
7:55 am. Parc Astérix will only reopen on June 9.
Yesterday, Jean-Baptiste Lemoyne announced that amusement parks could reopen on May 19 but their attractions on June 9, when the health pass desired by the government will be implemented. Misunderstanding of Nicolas Kremer, director of Parc Astérix, who spoke on France Bleu. First on the date:
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we don't understand very well, what does an amusement park without attractions mean?" "We cannot reopen like that, so we will leave on the date of June 9". Then on the Health Pass: “we are an impulse activity, people decide the day before for the next day that they come. If it is necessary to do a test, papers, we will lose customers ”
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And then we are not equipped, quite simply, to read the sanitary passes, ”he says.
7.45 a.m.
Australia could keep its borders closed until the end of 2022.
The epidemic outbreak in India shows the need for it, said Tourism Minister Dan Tehan and it is “very difficult to determine” when the borders will be able to reopen, he said. he said on Sky News.
"The most optimistic estimate would be in the middle or second half of next year."
Before the pandemic, around one million travelers entered the country each month for short stays.
They are now at 7,000 and anyone arriving from abroad must first stay 14 days in a hotel.
The majority of the 29,886 cases recorded in the mainland country were detected in quarantine hotels.
7:25 am. Vaccine thief arrested in the United States.
He allegedly stole 100 vials of Johnson & Johnson anti-covid serum last week from a dental office in Purdy, 50 km from Seattle, Washington. He was wanted by the Pierce County Sheriff for also stealing a vial of Botox and over $ 100,000 worth of medical supplies.
7:15 am.
Japan should extend the state of emergency.
As the Olympics approach, Tokyo, the capital, is under scrutiny.
According to Japanese newspapers, the government will extend the state of emergency until the end of May in four departments, including Tokyo, and impose it on two additional departments.
This summer is to impose the temporary closure of bars and restaurants serving alcohol, under penalty of a fine, and to ask certain other businesses, such as department stores, to lower the curtain.
7:05 am.
Germany and adolescent vaccination.
Subject to the green light from the European Medicines Agency (EMA), Germany plans to offer vaccination to adolescents over 12 years old by the end of August.
7 hours.
Moderna and teens.
The Moderna laboratory has announced a 96% efficacy of its vaccine in adolescents aged 12 to 17, according to initial results from clinical trials.
6:55 am.
The Swedish paradox.
Sweden surpassed the mark of one million cases detected on Thursday, while the country, which has pursued a less strict strategy against the virus, is currently in second place for new infections in Europe.
6:45 a.m. Berlin against the lifting of vaccine patents.
"The protection of intellectual property is the source of innovation and must continue to remain so in the future," warned Berlin, after Emmanuel Macron, the WHO and the WTO followed suit. United States, which wants to make the formula of anti-covid vaccines universal. "What limits the manufacture of vaccines are production capacities and high quality requirements, not patents," said a spokesperson for the Chancellor. This, added the German laboratory BioNTech, would not have an effect "in the short and medium term" because the protection of the patents is not the factor limiting the production and the supply of its vaccine developed with the American Pfizer.
6:35 am. Australia will allow 900 of its citizens to return from India.
As of last month, all travel to and from India has been banned by an order from Prime Minister Scott Morrison. But three repatriation flights will be organized between May 15 and May 31 to transport 900 Australian nationals, considered to be the most vulnerable. That is one in ten of the community that is in India. Tested before their departure and after their arrival, these 900 returnees will have to respect quarantine at the hotel.
6:25 am.
Broadway starts selling tickets again.
If you go to New York at the start of the school year, it is now possible to buy tickets to attend, from September 14, a play or a "musical" on Broadway.
Almost a year and a half after they close, the theaters will be able to accommodate 100% of their capacity, according to Governor Andrew Cuomo who made the announcement on Wednesday.
6:15 a.m.
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