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In France, 62 people have died from the new coronavirus in the past 24 hours.
A total of 108,687 people have died since the start of the epidemic.
The drop in hospital pressure continues with 19,701 people hospitalized due to Covid-19.
The latest report shows 3,496 patients currently in a critical care unit.
Health pass, digital reminder book ... Cédric O, Secretary of State for Digital, unveils exclusively in Le Parisien the novelties of TousAntiCovid.
The application developed by the government will make it possible, from June 9, to continue deconfinement.
More than 23 million French people have received at least one vaccine injection (34.82 of the major population) and nearly 9.8 million have received two doses.
Globally, the pandemic has killed nearly 3.5 million people.
Over 1.6 billion doses of vaccine have been administered.
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10:40 am.
"I don't know where it comes from, France or abroad, but it's lousy, it's dangerous and irresponsible and it doesn't work",
declares Olivier Véran in reaction.
to the Pfizer vaccine smear campaign.
"It's lousy": Olivier Véran reacts to the campaign to denigrate the Pfizer vaccine pic.twitter.com/maZJpMbMlV
- BFMTV (@BFMTV) May 25, 2021
10:35 am.
Tokyo plays down Washington's warning about travel to Japan.
The health warning from the United States concerning travel to Japan will not affect the Olympics scheduled for less than two months, the Japanese government and the Tokyo Olympic Games organizing committee said on Tuesday.
Tokyo-2020 "will continue to work closely with all relevant organizations to ensure the safe and secure participation of all athletes in the Games," the organizing committee said in a statement.
"To our knowledge, there is no change in the American position of support for the efforts of Japan" to organize the Games, estimates for his part the spokesman of the Japanese government, Katsunobu Kato.
10:29 am.
The government tried to extend the "whatever the cost"
.
Between June and September, emergency aid will be gradually disconnected.
But certain measures could continue beyond the summer according to Le Monde, in order to anticipate possible turbulence at the start of the school year.
10:03 am.
Concerts, stadiums, festivals ... the list of places where the health pass will be required from June 9.
The sesame will allow from June 9 to enter establishments or participate in events welcoming more than 1,000 people.
Our information can be found here.
9.45 a.m.
In Vannes, Jane Birkin marks the return of concerts.
The singer gave Monday one of the first concerts since the reopening of the concert halls.
9:29 a.m.
New Zealand: suspension of the air "bubble" with the Australian state of Victoria.
New Zealand will suspend non-quarantine flights from the state of Victoria in Australia on Tuesday following the onset of an epidemic, bringing the number of interruptions of this "air bubble" to four since its launch in April.
New Zealand authorities have admitted to being cautious after the identification in Melbourne of nine local cases of Covid-19, all in connection with a hotel where travelers arriving from abroad are placed in quarantine.
9:04 am.
Germany: GDP slump at the start of the year, weighed down by consumption.
The decline in household consumption in Germany led to a 1.8% decline in growth in the first quarter of 2021, against the backdrop of persistent restrictions against the Covid-19 pandemic, according to the Statistical Office which corrected the lower this Tuesday its first estimate.
After two quarters of increase, the GDP fell again from January to March and is found "5% below its pre-crisis level", comments Destatis, which had initially communicated a decline of 1.7% of the GDP. in the first trimester.
8:55 am.
Vaccination of priority professions: the CFDT asks employers to make volunteer employees “available”.
Olivier Guivarch, secretary general of the Federation of CFDT services, calls on France Info the bosses to allow their employees to be vaccinated during their working time.
8:35 am.
India: a plane wedding, to bypass anti-Covid restrictions.
An Indian couple chartered a plane to get married in the clouds in front of 161 guests, in violation of anti-Covid restrictions, press reports.
The Indian civil aviation authority has ordered an investigation and suspended the crew of the aircraft, say official sources.
Most states in India - which surpassed the threshold of 300,000 coronavirus deaths on Monday - allow a maximum of 50 guests to attend weddings.
The couple - whose identity has not been revealed - said "yes" on Sunday when the plane of the company SpiceJet, which was going to Bangalore (south), flew over the temple of Minakshi, in Madurai, in the southern state of Tamil Nadu, says the Hindustan Times newspaper.
8:18 am.
TousAntiCovid Signal: restaurants, gyms ... all about the digital reminder book.
From June 9, the TousAntiCovid application will include a new traceability feature intended to secure bars, restaurants and gyms.
Objective: to avoid a rebound in the epidemic.
Read our exclusive information here.
TousAntiCovid #Signal: restaurants, gyms ... all about the digital reminder notebook https://t.co/TPgXgQCW1d #TousAntiCovid # COVID19 #PassSanitaire pic.twitter.com/nVqpZcoRal
- Le Parisien Infog (@LeParisienInfog) May 25, 2021
7:49 am.
"The current dynamic is very favorable and that gives us more leeway for this summer," said Arnaud Fontanet.
"According to models from the Pasteur Institute, the relaxation will be stronger this summer", continues Arnaud Fontanet.
7.45 a.m.
“The epidemic has fallen sharply and the next three weeks are crucial,”
says Arnaud Fontanet,
epidemiologist and member of the Scientific Council.
7:42 am.
Distrust of vaccines: Hong Kong could throw away millions of doses.
The mistrust and hesitation of Hong Kongers vis-à-vis vaccines against the coronavirus means that the authorities of the former British colony may soon have to throw away millions of expired doses, warns a local official on Tuesday.
The city is one of the few places in the world that is lucky enough to have managed to obtain enough doses to immunize its entire population, which is 7.5 million.
But the vaccination campaign is far from having had the hoped-for success, for several reasons.
First, there is the deep mistrust of the Hong Kong people towards the authorities who are perceived as the arm of Chinese repression, two years after the immense popular mobilization of 2019.
But hesitation about vaccines is also a consequence of misinformation online, and the relatively widespread feeling that there is no rush to get vaccinated, on the one hand due to poor circulation. virus in Hong Kong, therefore reduced health risk, and on the other, lack of incentives.
7:34.
Call from Latin American countries for equitable distribution of vaccines.
Six leaders from Latin American and Caribbean countries are calling on the international community for equitable access to Covid-19 vaccines, asking countries with the most doses to share them.
"We appeal strongly to countries which have a surplus of doses or which have already vaccinated their populations at risk, to implement measures so that these surpluses are distributed equitably and immediately", affirm- they in a joint statement released by the President of Costa Rica, Carlos Alvarado.
Besides the latter, the appeal was signed by Argentine President Alberto Fernandez, Mexican President Andrés Manuel Lopez Obrador, Jamaican Prime Minister Andrew Michael Holness, Bolivian President Luis Alberto Arce Catacora, Ecuador Guillermo Lasso Mendoza and Uruguay's Luis Alberto Lacalle Pou.
7:12.
State of emergency in Haiti.
Haitian authorities declare a state of health emergency across the country for a period of eight days in the face of an increase in the number of Covid-19 cases.
Haiti, is one of ten countries in the world that have not yet started its vaccination campaign, but is waiting for these vaccines through the Covax program, a global mechanism for supplying vaccines to the 92 poorest countries.
6:58 am.
Resurgence of Covid-19 cases in Japan.
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".
6:45 a.m.
Washington recommends not to go to Japan, host of the Olympics.
The United States recommends that its nationals not travel to Japan, the host country of the Olympic Games this summer, due to the risks associated with the Covid-19 pandemic.
"Due to Covid-19, do not travel to Japan," writes the US State Department, which has raised its travel warning to the maximum level of warning.
For several weeks, the State Department has been updating its travel warnings to harmonize them with those of the Centers for Disease Prevention and Control (CDC), in order to better take into account the risks associated with the coronavirus.
As a result, a greater number of countries are now classified as level 4, “do not go there”.
But with regard to Japan, two months away from the Olympics supposed to be held in Tokyo from July 23 to August 8, this warning is of particular importance.
Especially since the holding of the world sports competition continues to be debated in the archipelago, part of which is under a state of emergency in the face of a fourth wave of Covid-19.
6:35 am.
In France, the downward trend in hospitals is confirmed.
Less than 20,000 French people (editor's note, 19,701 people) are hospitalized due to Covid-19.
The latest report shows 3,496 people currently in a critical care unit.
The slow decline continues.
6.30 a.m.
62 new deaths in France in the last 24 hours.
This figure should be taken with great caution because of Whit Monday.
A total of 108,687 people have died since the start of the epidemic.
6:25 am.
Update on vaccination.
In France, more than 23 million French people (23,094,366) received at least one vaccine injection (34.8% of the population) and 9,738,741 people received two injections.
6:20 am.
“More than 75% of all vaccines have been administered in just 10 countries,” laments the WHO.
The Director General of the World Health Organization deplores that a "small group of countries" monopolize the vaccines against the Covid, and demands that "at least 10% of the population of each country" can be vaccinated from here September.
Read here.
6:15 a.m.
Good morning all.
Welcome to this live dedicated to the news of the Covid-19 pandemic.
