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Europe validates the first national recovery plans in Portugal and Spain.
A Defense Council is being held this Wednesday in France.
The latest report on the pandemic in France shows less than 2,000 people hospitalized in critical care.
69 people died in 24 hours and 3,235 were infected over the same period.
30.7 million people have received at least one dose of the vaccine;
14.7 are fully vaccinated.
Globally, the pandemic has killed at least 3.822 million people.
Over 2.4 billion doses of vaccine have been administered.
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7:20 a.m.
Jean Castex returns to business.
Contact case, Prime Minister Jean Castex, whose wife tested positive for Covid-19 last week, has finished with her seven days of isolation.
"The result of the Prime Minister's PCR test, carried out at the end of his seven-day isolation period, in accordance with health rules, is negative," said Matignon, the seat of government this morning.
Jean Castex will therefore be able to participate in the Council of Ministers in a few hours, as well as to go to Cheverny (Loir-et-Cher) to support Minister Marc Fesneau, the majority candidate for regional in Center-Val de Loire.
7:10. Europe is kicking off recovery plans in Portugal and Spain.
The President of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, is expected in Lisbon and then in Madrid, the Portuguese and Spanish capitals, to give the green light from Brussels, the European capital, to the first national recovery plans, financed by a common loan . Portugal has made the rapid adoption of these national plans one of the main priorities of its rotating presidency of the European Council. Spain is for its part the second beneficiary of these European funds behind Italy. Madrid must touch 140 billion euros in total, including 70 billion euros in direct subsidies and as much in the form of loans.
7 hours.
A limit of 10,000 spectators envisaged for the Olympic Games.
The Japanese government could limit the number of spectators to 10,000 after the end of the state of health emergency on June 20, according to media, while organizers of the Tokyo Olympics are also considering a gauge.
The project, which does not concern only sporting events, would limit the number of spectators to 50% of the capacity of a site or to 10,000 people maximum, whichever is lower.
6:45 am.
Elected officials want the dismissal of the anti-Covid adviser to the American presidency.
Republican elected representatives of Congress, the US parliament, are calling for the dismissal of the medical adviser to the presidency, Anthony Fauci, bête noire of Donald Trump, the former president, for his management of the pandemic. “Dr Fauci was not elected by the Americans. He was not chosen to run our economy. He was not chosen to decide on the education of the children by overriding the parents. Yet Dr Fauci has practically controlled our life for a year, ”accuses Trumpist parliamentarian Marjorie Taylor Green, presenting a bill calling for his dismissal. This text has no chance of being approved in a Congress controlled by the Democrats, but half a dozen Republican elected representatives of the House of Representatives, the equivalent of the National Assembly, hammered that the scientist had deceived the country,based on recently published emails. He "gave conflicting advice on the source of the virus, the transmission of the virus, the virulence of the virus, the effectiveness of masks and vaccines, the effectiveness of social distancing," assures one of them.
6.30 a.m. At the Copa America, a total of 53 cases.
A total of 53 people have already tested positive for Covid-19 among all the delegations participating in the Copa America, the South American equivalent of Euro football. Since Sunday, the date of the inaugural match in Brasilia, the capital of Brazil, "53 cases of Covid-19 have been reported, including 27 among players and members of delegations and 26 among service providers hired for the event", details the Ministry of Health.
6:15 am. The coronavirus was present in the United States from December 2019.
The coronavirus responsible for Covid-19 has been in the United States since at least December 2019, that is to say weeks before the first case confirmed in January 2020, according to a new study published Tuesday. The US National Institutes of Health (NIH) analyzed 24,000 blood samples taken from volunteers in the country between January 2 and March 18, 2020. Antibodies against the SARS-CoV-2 virus have been detected in nine patients. Antibodies that block the ability of the virus to infect cells do not appear until two weeks after infection. The first positive samples are from participants in the states of Illinois and Massachusetts.
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