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In France, 7,581 people are hospitalized, 172 more than on Saturday evening.
Among them, 1,137 are in a critical care unit.
In 24 hours, 18 new Covid patients died.
Four of the five overseas departments are currently in a state of health emergency.
The curfew begins there at 7 p.m.
Patients have been transferred from Martinique to the metropolis, cases are skyrocketing in the island.
Yet many residents still refuse to be vaccinated.
It is not yet official but Germany intends to offer from September 1 the administration of a 3rd dose of vaccine to the elderly and vulnerable.
In China, millions of people were tested in several major cities in China on Sunday.
An epidemic outbreak that appeared at Nanjing (East) airport a few days ago has now spread to more than twenty cities and more than ten provinces.
Follow the events of the day live:
6.30 a.m. The army deployed in Sydney.
Australia's largest city is entering its sixth week of containment. 300 soldiers, unarmed, began this morning to go door to door to ensure that people who test positive isolate themselves at home. They also patrol the largely deserted streets of Sydney with the police and help distribute food parcels. 207 new infections were detected in 24 hours, more than 3,500 since the wave started in June, when a limousine driver contracted the virus while carrying an airline crew to the airport. 'foreigner.
6:20 am. Flahaut wants to convince overseas to accept the curfew.
“French ultramarine vaccination coverage is lower than that of Russia, which has seen hospitalizations and deaths skyrocket with the wave of contamination with the Delta variant. On Twitter, epidemiologist Antoine Flahaut is trying to convince overseas inhabitants by numbers to get vaccinated quickly. Saturday evening in Fort-de-France (Martinique), a vaccinodrome and a pharmacy were set on fire, and a hypermarket looted, during clashes between a hundred demonstrators and the police, after the establishment of a new curfew.
French overseas vaccination coverage is lower than that of Russia, which has seen hospitalizations and deaths skyrocket with the wave of Delta variant contaminations: this is what threatens these ultra-peripheral regions of Europe if nothing is happened. done quickly.
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- Antoine FLAHAULT (@FLAHAULT) August 1, 2021
6:15 am.
Brisbane extends its confinement.
The Australian state of Queensland this morning extended the confinement of the population of Brisbane (2.7 million inhabitants) until next Sunday.
13 new local cases were detected on Sunday, the largest single-day increase recorded by the state in a year.
"It is starting to be clear that the initial containment will not be enough to stem the outbreak," Steven Miles, Queensland State Deputy Prime Minister, told reporters in Brisbane.
6:05 am.
The USA and the "epidemic of the unvaccinated".
The White House adviser on the health crisis, the highly respected Dr Anthony Fauci, does not "think" that the United States will undergo further lockdowns.
However, “the situation will deteriorate” because of an “epidemic of the unvaccinated”.
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