The essential
Less than 20,000 French people are hospitalized due to Covid-19, a first since October 27, 2020.
The latest report shows 3,544 people currently in a critical care service.
In 24 hours, 89 people died of the disease and 12,611 new contaminations were detected.
Nearly 23 million French people have received at least one vaccine injection (34.2% of the population);
nearly 9.7 million received two doses.
Globally, the pandemic has killed at least 3,454,000 people.
Over 1.6 billion doses of vaccine have been administered.
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8:20 am.
Declining incidence in Germany.
According to figures from the Robert Koch Institute, the incidence rate continues to decline in Germany with 64.5 cases per 100,000 inhabitants, against 83.1 last Sunday.
8 hours.
Pfizer and AstraZeneca vaccines effective against the Indian variant.
The vaccines from Pfizer / BioNTech and AstraZeneca / Oxford are proving to be almost as effective against the Indian variant as against the English variant, a study by health authorities in England, Public Health England (PHE) said on Saturday.
Pfizer / BioNTech is 88% effective two weeks after the second dose;
it is 93% against the English variant.
Over the same period, AstraZeneca serum is 60% effective, while it is 66% against the English variant.
7.40 am. Moderna will ask in early June to use its vaccine in Europe for adolescents.
The American biotechnology company Moderna will submit an application for marketing authorization for its vaccine in the European Union “at the beginning of June” for 12-17 year olds. Considering that "by the summer, all adults wishing to be vaccinated will have received a first dose", Stéphane Bancel, the CEO, believes, in the Sunday Journal, that "it will then be necessary very quickly to target the adolescents aged 12 to 17 ”. “The ideal would be to protect them before the end of August. If we do not vaccinate massively, the risk of a fourth wave cannot be ruled out. Today, only Pfizer / BioNTech's vaccine is authorized for 16-18 year olds in Europe; Pfizer has also applied for authorization for 12-16 year olds and has already obtained it in the United States.
7:20 a.m.
Numerous false tests.
Many false Covid-19 screening tests are circulating.
Their users want to avoid being actually tested to circumvent a possible contamination, but also for lack of time.
In this article, Le Parisien goes into detail about this practice that the European health pass should make much more complicated.
7 hours.
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