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The essential

• In France, 42 deaths from the new coronavirus have been recorded in the past 24 hours.

  A total of 116,002 people have lost their lives since the start of the epidemic.

• The pandemic figures continue to improve in the country: 8,912 patients are currently hospitalized due to a Covid infection.

• While France has passed the 50 million mark for first-time vaccines, Olivier Véran, the Minister of Health, announced this Sunday in our newspaper that if the situation continued to improve, we could gradually ease the restrictions.

  This relief could include the health pass.

• The "refractory" to vaccination and the health pass have again mobilized through 199 gatherings in France.

  These demonstrators numbered 80,000, according to the police.

• Worldwide, Covid-19 has officially killed more than 4.67 million people.

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7.45 a.m.

Towards an easing of restrictions?

“If the situation continued to improve, we could gradually ease the restrictions, where the virus circulates the least first, then everywhere in the territory.

This relief could include the health pass, "said the Minister of Health this Sunday in an interview with Le Parisien.

Already Thursday, Emmanuel Macron said he was ready to “lift certain constraints” in “the territories where the virus circulates less quickly” without however giving a precise timetable.

7.40 am.

No epidemic rebound observed.

"Two weeks after the start of the school year, we have, for the time being, not observed an epidemic rebound," Olivier Véran notes this Sunday in his interview with Le Parisien.

7:35.

Anti-health pass demonstrations: 80,000 people marched in France, according to the Interior

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According to the Interior Ministry, 80,000 people took to the streets in France on Saturday to protest against the health pass and the vaccination obligation.

A lower number compared to the previous week.

Read all the information on this tenth Saturday of mobilization here.

Read alsoRejection of the health pass, mingled mistrust and anger: who are the refractors of Saturday

7:30 am.

The number of people hospitalized with Covid-19 continues to decline

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It is 8,912, compared to 9,070 the day before and 10,018 seven days ago.

The situation is also improving in critical care services.

With 68 new admissions, these units which take care of more serious cases have 1,837 patients with Covid-19, against 1,891 the day before and 2,131 on September 11.

7:20 a.m.

More than 4.67 million deaths worldwide.

The pandemic has killed at least 4,678,016 worldwide since the end of December 2019. The United States is the country with the most deaths (672,880) ahead of Brazil (589,573 dead), India (444,529 ), Mexico (270,538), and Peru with (198,948).

7:10.

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