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In France, 105 people have died from the new coronavirus in the past 24 hours.
A total of 109,319 people have lost their lives since the start of the epidemic.
Across the country, fewer than 18,000 people are hospitalized due to Covid-19.
Among them, 3,104 are in critical care.
The European Medicines Agency authorizes the Pfizer vaccine for 12-15 year olds.
Until then, the authorization was limited to people over 16 years of age.
24 million French people have received at least one dose of vaccine.
More than 11 million are fully immunized.
Globally, the Covid-19 pandemic has killed more than 3.5 million people.
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9:12 am.
The budget deficit will drop to € 220 billion in 2021, almost € 47 billion more than expected.
9:10.
End of "confinement" in the Netherlands on June 5.
Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte announces the end of "containment" from June 5 with a new series of easing restrictions against the coronavirus, in particular allowing restaurants to welcome customers inside.
8:54 a.m.
Manchester City-Chelsea, a 100% English final in Porto.
Favorite of a 100% English final, Manchester City have the opportunity to win their first Football Champions League, the consecration hoped for by Pep Guardiola and his Emirati leaders, but Chelsea promise a fierce duel on Saturday (9:00 p.m.) in Porto, at the image of his vengeful trainer Thomas Tuchel.
At Dragon Stadium, it will float like air back to normal, after a season, once again, disrupted by the Covid-19 pandemic.
In camera?
Forget it.
After months of empty stands, the stands will be dotted with 16,500 supporters, including around 10,000 from the UK.
8:38.
Japan is extending the state of emergency, two months before the Olympics.
The Japanese government has once again extended the state of emergency in force in the face of Covid-19, until June 20, almost a month before the opening of the Tokyo Olympics (July 23-August 8).
"The number of new cases has declined since mid-May, but the situation continues to be uncertain," said Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga.
The state of emergency, which had already been extended by three weeks in May, currently concerns 10 of the 47 Japanese departments, including those of Tokyo and its suburbs, Osaka or Kyoto (west).
8:20 am.
Multiple sclerosis and Covid: concerns around certain treatments.
Some treatments against multiple sclerosis, anti-CD20, seem to cancel the protection of vaccines against Covid-19 and increase the risk of developing a severe form, alarm specialists in multiple sclerosis before the World Day of this sickness Sunday.
"Patients treated with this class of treatments are both more exposed to severe forms of Covid and risk responding less well to vaccination," neurologist Jean Pelletier of the Arsep Foundation told AFP (Research aid on multiple sclerosis).
According to him, "around 20%" of patients with multiple sclerosis (MS) take this type of treatment, either at the onset of their disease, or because the others have not worked.
It is estimated that more than 2.8 million people are affected by this autoimmune disease worldwide (110,000 in France).
The two drugs affected are rituximab and ocrelizumab.
8:14.
Whole class from Monday for 4th and 3rd year students.
From Monday, the fourth and third pupils will be able to return to entire classes.
A half-gauge remained in force in about fifteen departments, particularly affected by the Covid-19 epidemic.
7:58 a.m.
Oxygen, hospitals, drugs ... applications to the rescue of Venezuelans.
Looking for a hospital or a clinic, an oxygen tank, medication?
Venezuelan applications have arisen to try to help Covid-19 patients and their relatives for free in a country hard hit by the pandemic but also by the economic crisis.
A second wave of coronavirus in March is wreaking havoc in the country of 30 million people which has experienced eight consecutive years of economic recession.
The country officially lists more than 220,000 cases and 2,500 deaths, but NGOs denounce underestimated figures while hospitals and clinics are overwhelmed.
7.45 a.m.
Cuba denounces the effect of the embargo on its vaccination campaign.
Cuba, which has developed five candidate vaccines against the coronavirus, accuses the strengthening of the American embargo of having delayed its vaccination campaign.
"It must be said that we did not vaccinate more Cubans because we did not have the necessary resources to manufacture more vaccines, the world must know that", says Yuri Valdés, deputy director of the Finlay Institute vaccines, during a session of the Cuban National Assembly where deputies invited parliamentarians from around the world to virtually join in their demand for the lifting of the embargo, in force since 1962.
7.40 am.
The decline continues in the hospital.
3,104 patients are currently in critical care.
The number of Covid patients treated in hospital fell further in the space of 24 hours and remains below 20,000 (17,272 to be exact), a sign that a serious decline in the epidemic is being confirmed.
7:35.
105 new deaths in France in the last 24 hours.
A total of 109,319 people have lost their lives since the start of the epidemic.
7:30 am.
Update on vaccination in France.
Since the start of the campaign, 24,992,823 people have received at least one injection (or 47.6% of the major population) and 10,578,349 people have received two doses (or 20.1% of the major population).
The Pfizer vaccine is by far the most administered serum.
7:25 am.
A declaration from the Haute Autorité de santé expected.
The High Authority for Health must now rule on the subject of Pfizer vaccination in 12-15 year olds but also in 16-17 year olds, since only older adolescents with a very high risk pathology of serious form or who live with it. an immunocompromised person can already be vaccinated.
7:20 a.m.
The European Medicines Agency authorizes the Pfizer vaccine for 12-15 year olds.
The European Medicines Agency (EMA) has given the green light to Pfizer / BioNTech's vaccine for 12-15 year olds.
The serum thus becomes the first vaccine to be authorized for adolescents in the 27 countries of the European Union.
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