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In France, 63 people have died from the new coronavirus in the past 24 hours.
In total, since the start of the epidemic 110,483 people have lost their lives.
In critical care services in France, we are gradually approaching the threshold of 2,000 patients treated.
2,068 patients are currently being treated there.
Five million adolescents aged 12 to 17 can be vaccinated as of Tuesday.
Since the start of the vaccination campaign in France, 30,472,434 people have received at least one injection and 14,364,587 people have received two injections.
Deconfinement is shifted in England in the face of the rise of the Delta variant.
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9.44 a.m.
Air: annual losses of 4.5 billion euros for Emirates, a first in 30 years.
Emirates, the Dubai airline, on Tuesday announced annual losses of around 4.5 billion euros, the first in more than three decades as lockdowns and restrictions linked to the coronavirus pandemic hit the industry hard of aviation.
“Due to the flight and travel restrictions linked to the pandemic, the airline recorded a loss of 20.3 billion dirhams (more than 4.5 billion euros) after a profit of 1.1 billion dirhams ( nearly 247 million euros) last year, ”Emirates said in a statement.
9:32.
Tokyo Olympics: arrival of the IOC Vice-President, preparations are accelerating.
The Vice-President of the International Olympic Committee (IOC), John Coates, arrived in Tokyo on Tuesday, while preparations for the Olympics are accelerating five weeks before the opening of the event, postponed to 2020 due to the pandemic.
Before the arrival of John Coates, several dozen people demonstrated against the Games in the Japanese capital, although recent polls show a weakening of the opposition of the Japanese population.
During the day, the organizers of Tokyo-2020 will publish the final version of their measures against the coronavirus contained in "manuals" (playbooks) which, according to them, will guarantee the security of the Games.
9:27 a.m.
11,000 students during a mega-graduation ceremony in Wuhan, one year after confinement.
The images show thousands of students, side by side, without social distancing and often without masks.
A year ago, the city, the epicenter of the Covid-19 epidemic, was confined.
Our topic to read here.
8:58 am.
"We are moving towards something positive and athletes are the first to be vaccinated"
, declares
Roxana Maracineanu.
8:52 a.m.
"I ask the French to be responsible because there is still half of the population who must go to be vaccinated"
, explains the
Minister Delegate in charge of Sports.
8:47 am.
"There will be a tolerance for people who return home this evening after seeing the match of the French football team at the cafe or restaurant,"
said on France Info Roxana Maracineanu, Minister Delegate in charge of Sports.
8:24.
The 2021 bac, upset by the covid, will start soon.
A test maintained but adapted: the written philosophy will open Thursday morning the 2021 session of the new baccalaureate formula, which has however been adjusted to take into account the disturbances in high schools caused by the health crisis.
For this first edition of the Bac Blanquer, some 715,000 candidates will try to obtain the precious diploma.
More than half (53.7%) have the general bac - which now consists of a common core of subjects, supplemented by two courses of specialties chosen à la carte by the students - 26.5% the professional and 19, 8% technological.
The preparation conditions for this bicentennial examination have been made more complex this year by the health crisis.
Since November, in particular, many students have been studying at a distance or in half-groups.
8:04 am.
The gauge for Euro 2020 increased to 40,000 spectators.
Euro 2020 semi-finals and finals will be played in front of 40,000 fans at Wembley, the largest crowd in the UK for more than 15 months, as authorities upped the tonnage at public events on Monday -test.
“We want to collect more evidence on how we can safely resume big events,” Culture Minister Oliver Dowden said.
This represents for the Euro a move to nearly 50% of the capacity of Wembley stadium, despite the announcement by Prime Minister Boris Johnson of a four-week postponement of the complete lifting of restrictions linked to Covid-19, due to an increase in infections caused by the Delta variant.
7:58 am.
No more masks indoors, Israel decides
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It was the latest measure against Covid-19 in Israel.
However, the mask will remain mandatory in rare cases, especially in hospitals and retirement homes.
To read here.
7:50 a.m.
A risk of slackening in the summer?
Observers fear a "great relaxation" during the summer, with the end of the curfew on June 30 and gauges in confined spaces.
"It is not a risk, it is normal, the French need to find a semblance of normal life", estimates Pascal Crépey. There was general agreement that the summer should be fine. Pascal Crépey thinks that "good habits have been taken", hoping that they will last, for example "the fact that the French people most at risk take precautions" or that "sick people are quickly tested and avoid going at work ".
The Institut Pasteur takes the summer of 2020 as a reference and foresees “a rather well-controlled situation during the summer.
A recovery is possible but a priori not too explosive given the level of vaccination ”.
However, warns Simon Cauchemez, the models "could be wrong if people slack off more than last summer and if the Delta variant - not currently taken into account - quickly took precedence" over the Alpha variant (said British) .
Mr. Crépey warns: "we must not think we are completely out of the woods because the virus is still there, and the Delta variant could have some surprises in store for us".
7:30 am.
Vaccination and weather, the epidemic is slowing down, but beware of Delta.
Thanks to accelerated vaccination and very favorable weather, the Covid-19 epidemic is decelerating faster than expected in France but the authorities are tracking down the Delta variant which could derail the models of forecasters.
The Covid epidemic is in rapid deceleration with less than 5,000 new cases per day (compared to six times more at the last peak, in early April) and soon around 2,000 per day, according to forecasters.
For Daniel Lévy-Bruhl, epidemiologist at Public Health France, the situation is "more favorable" than what was expected a few weeks ago, with an incidence rate falling below 100 for the first time since September 2020 ( 68 new cases per 100,000 inhabitants).
"It's a very good surprise which concerns all of Europe, with the exception of the United Kingdom and Portugal," says epidemiologist Antoine Flahault.
The recession "appeared in our models but may have accelerated thanks in particular to the weather, the impact of which is difficult to predict", explains Simon Cauchemez, modeler at the Institut Pasteur.
7:14.
Curfew after France-Germany: Darmanin asks the police to "show leniency"
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The police were invited by the Minister of the Interior to show flexibility to allow the return in peace of football fans to their homes after the match.
To read here.
6:58 am.
A Wuhan lab official once again rejects accusations about the origins of the pandemic
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A Chinese virologist, director of one of the laboratories of the Wuhan Institute of Virology, once again denies the theory according to which the virus causing Covid-19 could have escaped from her institution, in an interview published in the New York Times.
US President Joe Biden in May called on US intelligence services to "redouble their efforts" to explain the origins of Covid-19, deploring Beijing's lack of cooperation and transparency.
Long brushed aside by most experts, the theory of a laboratory accident in Wuhan, China, has come back in force in recent weeks in the American debate.
And calls for more in-depth investigation are growing within the scientific community.
Shi Zhengli, head of the high-security P3 laboratory (for "class 3 pathogen") at the Wuhan institute which studies many viruses including coronaviruses, responded to the New York Times by phone and email.
"How the hell can I bring proof of something that there is no proof of?"
She first blurted out, then wishing to continue by email, citing the rules of the institute based in the city which was the first epicenter of the coronavirus pandemic.
6:45 am.
"How far back do we have?
»: The vaccination of 12-17 year olds begins this Tuesday and is debated by parents.
Five million adolescents aged 12 to 17 can be vaccinated as of Tuesday.
But especially for the youngest, who need it less, the measure struggles to convince parents.
Read here.
6:40 am.
63 new deaths in France in the last 24 hours.
In total, since the start of the epidemic 110,483 people have lost their lives.
6:35 am.
Hospital pressure continues to drop in France.
12,374 Covid-19 patients are currently treated in hospitals across the country and 2,068 are in critical care.The incidence rate has been at the lowest in France since September 1.
6.30 a.m.
England is pausing its deconfinement in the face of the rise of the Delta variant.
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson announces postponing for four weeks, until July 19, the lifting of the last restrictions imposed in England.
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6:25 am.
More than 555,000 injections in the last 24 hours in France.
According to the Directorate General of Health, 30,472,434 people received at least one injection (i.e. 45.5% of the total population and 58% of the adult population) and 14,364,587 people received two injections (i.e. 21.4% % of the total population and 27.4% of the adult population).
6:20 am.
The Delta variant has been detected in 74 countries and continues to spread
, raising concerns that it will become the most dominant strain in the world.
There are also concerns that countries with weaker surveillance systems may not have detected the presence of the strain, which first appeared in India.
6:10 am.
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