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In France, 70 people have died from the new coronavirus in the past 24 hours.
In total, the epidemic has killed 108,625 people in the country.
Less than 20,000 French people (editor's note, 19,720 people) are hospitalized due to Covid-19, a first since October 27, 2020. The latest report shows 3,515 people currently in a critical care service.
Nearly 23 million French people have received at least one vaccine injection (34.2% of the population) and nearly 9.7 million have received two doses.
Teachers, firefighters, police officers, gendarmes ... vaccination is now open without age limit for priority professions.
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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8:50 am.
"The first week of June, we will define a list of green countries, in which the health situation is good enough to let them return to France,"
said the Secretary of State for European Affairs.
8:48 am.
"We want to do everything so that travel to Europe can resume serenely at the end of June," explains Clément Beaune.
8.45 a.m.
"In this European health pass, it will be a vaccine or a test, but not both," said Clément Beaune.
8:42 am.
"The health pass will be implemented on July 1 in the 27 countries of the European Union,"
said
Clément Beaune, Secretary of State for European Affairs.
Clément Beaune (@CBeaune) ensures that the health pass "will be fully operational on July 1 in the 27 countries of the European Union" pic.twitter.com/zyhWjj4CBh
- BFMTV (@BFMTV) May 24, 2021
8:30 am.
Saudi Arabia is putting pressure on "anti-vaccines" to revive its economy.
Saudi Arabia decides to tighten the screw concerning the skeptics of the anticoronavirus vaccine, prohibiting them from pilgrimages, trips abroad but also access to universities, shopping malls and offices, a controversial vaccination incentive policy.
Riyadh wants to revive tourism, sporting events and entertainment, sectors severely affected by the health crisis and essential to the “Vision 2030” plan to diversify its oil-dependent economy.
Arousing discontent, Riyadh only allows pilgrims who have been vaccinated, or those who have recovered from Covid-19 in the past six months, to make Umrah, the small Muslim pilgrimage that can be carried out throughout the year.
8:19 am.
Cluster in Bordeaux: an operation “unprecedented in France”, underlines Prof. Denis Malvy.
Professor Denis Malvy, infectious disease specialist at Bordeaux University Hospital and member of the Scientific Council, deciphers the “unprecedented in France” strategy to fight against a cluster detected in the Bacalan district and formed from a “worrying” variant.
The professor continues: “The health authorities have decided on a territorial action, on an enlarged population basin compared to the place where the chains of transmission appeared quite brutally about ten days ago.
This strategy includes screening and massive vaccination (19,000 additional doses, editor's note), rapid and transgenerational.
This last point is all the more necessary since this cluster mainly concerns young people ”.
7:57 a.m.
United States, Brazil and India, the most bereaved countries in the world.
After the United States (589,883), the countries with the highest number of deaths are Brazil (449,068), India (303,720), Mexico (221,597), and the United Kingdom (127,716 ).
These figures, which are based on daily reports from national health authorities, are generally underestimated.
7:42 am.
Boris Johnson's strategy in the United Kingdom crushed by a former adviser.
A former adviser to British Prime Minister Boris Johnson, Dominic Cummings, has crushed his management of the pandemic, accusing him of having aimed for a "collective immunity", three days before a hearing before a parliamentary committee which is announced corrosive to the government.
In a series of tweets, Dominic Cummings claims that when the pandemic emerged in early 2020, the government's plan was to let the virus spread so that a majority of the population would develop resistance after contracting the disease.
7:31.
The LOSC champion of Ligue 1: the streets of Lille in celebration despite the curfew.
Supporters and locals braved the curfew in effect to celebrate the Mastiff's title.
To read here.
7:22.
Seven arrests after the party to celebrate the coronation of Losc.
Seven people were arrested on the night of Sunday to Monday in Lille, where thousands of supporters had gathered despite the curfew to celebrate the victory of Losc in the French L1 championship, announces the prefecture of the North.
7:09 am.
Japan under pressure before the Olympics.
Relatively spared from the pandemic compared to other countries, with some 12,000 officially recorded deaths since early 2020, Japan is however experiencing an upsurge in Covid-19 cases putting its medical system under pressure.
The population is strongly opposed to the holding of the Games, but the organizers keep repeating that very strict antivirus measures and the ban on spectators coming from abroad will allow them to be organized "in complete safety".
6:55 am.
Opening of the first vaccinodromes in Japan.
Japan opens its first mass vaccination centers against the coronavirus this Monday, in order to accelerate its vaccination campaign, the slowness of which is widely criticized less than two months now from the Tokyo Olympics (July 23-August 8).
The two centers set up in Tokyo and Osaka (west), and managed by the Japanese Self-Defense Forces, will be responsible for administering thousands of doses of vaccines daily to people aged 65 and over.
Just 2% of the approximately 125 million inhabitants of the Archipelago have so far received the two doses of vaccine, against 40% in the United States or 15% in France.
6:45 a.m.
India crosses the threshold of 300,000 deaths from Covid-19.
India crosses the threshold of 300,000 coronavirus deaths, becoming the third country in the world to reach this figure, behind the United States and Brazil, as the pandemic continues to rage in this vast country of 1.3 billion inhabitants.
According to the Ministry of Health, the total number of deaths stands at 303,720, including 50,000 in just under two weeks, and the cumulative number of contaminations exceeds 26.7 million.
6:35 am.
The number of hospitalizations linked to the virus falls below the 20,000 mark.
Less than 20,000 French people (editor's note, 19,720 people) are hospitalized due to Covid-19, a first since October 27, 2020. The latest report shows of 3,515 people currently in a critical care unit.
6.30 a.m.
70 new deaths in France in the last 24 hours.
In total, the epidemic has killed 108,625 people in the country.
6:25 am.
Update on vaccination.
In France, nearly 23 million French people (22,933,520) received at least one vaccine injection (34.2% of the population) and nearly 9.7 million received two doses.
6:20 am.
PCR tests will no longer tell which variant infected you.
Within 10 days, the name of the variant will no longer be communicated to infected patients who have undergone PCR.
And so what ?
We explain everything in our article.
6:15 a.m.
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