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21 dead in seven days in Guyana, a level of deaths "never reached", warns the ARS.
49 deaths in 24 hours, 8,107 hospitalized patients in France.
French mask manufacturers at bay.
Due to a lack of orders, especially public ones, their activity is now threatened.
Less than 2,400 classes closed in France, according to National Education.
The Scientific Council recommends maintaining free tests up to the age of 16.
Follow the events of the day live:
4:20 p.m.
Nice: thousands of demonstrators against the health pass.
The prefect of the Alpes-Maritimes yesterday issued an order banning demonstrations and gatherings in certain areas of central Nice.
According to Nice-Matin, this prohibited perimeter was respected by the demonstrators.
A large police force is on site.
Several thousand people at the anti-sanitary pass demonstration in Nice https://t.co/71EjHYIIMQ pic.twitter.com/wNneLML89O
- Nice-Matin (@Nice_Matin) September 25, 2021
3:50 p.m.
Epinal: traders faced demonstrators.
In front of the prefecture of the Vosges, a shopkeeper and elected officials went to meet demonstrators opposed to the health pass.
With roses, they explained their exasperation to them, according to Vosges Matin.
The climate, a tense weather, seems to calm down.
3:40 p.m.
Health pass: between 60,000 and 80,000 demonstrators expected in France.
This is the figure put forward by a police source on the number of participants protesting against the health pass in France.
3.30 p.m. Paris: a few thousand demonstrators against the health pass.
A few thousand demonstrators took to the streets of Paris at the beginning of the Saturday afternoon to denounce the health pass and the vaccination obligation of caregivers for the eleventh consecutive Saturday. A large police force was mobilized around the procession, starting from the Gare de Lyon (12th arrondissement) to the Sacré Coeur (18th arrondissement). In total, four processions were expected in the streets of the capital. “I am demonstrating against Macron and his liberticidal measures. I am not vaccinated, I do not trust. But I may be obliged if the tests become paid, "said Tristan, 72-year-old retiree," Yellow vest from the start ".
3:15 p.m.
Marseille hospitals: over 93% of employees vaccinated.
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in mid-August, 60% of the 12,000 AP-HM employees were enrolled in a vaccination course.
A month later, on September 15, this rate exceeded 93%, according to Le Monde.
The new director general of Public Assistance-Hospitals of Marseille, François Crémieux has, it seems, succeeded in passing the course of compulsory vaccination without social explosion.
2:45 p.m.
Demonstrations against the health pass have started.
Of the 185 demonstrations against the health pass planned for this Saturday, several have already taken place in France.
New demonstration against the sanitary pass in Pau.
After a stop at the Fair expo, parade around the roundabout on the route de Bordeaux.
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- South West Pau (@SO_Pau) September 25, 2021
2:15 p.m.
Risk of severe pain in the shoulder followed by paralysis of the arm after the injection of the Pfizer and Moderna vaccine.
According to the drug agency, since the start of the follow-up, 6 cases of Parsonage-Turner syndrome, that is to say a violent pain in the shoulder followed by a paralysis of the arm have been observed after the vaccination of the Pfizer vaccine (Comirnaty).
The majority of cases are in the process of recovery, specifies the ANSM.
Two cases have been reported with Moderna.
"The committee considers that this is a potential signal common to RNA vaccines"
1:09 p.m.
What the latest American studies say about the effectiveness of the mask.
American health agencies have published the results of new work suggesting that wearing a compulsory mask in schools would be very effective in limiting the risk of contamination. Read our decryption here.
12:15. Mandatory return to the office in the public administration in Italy.
The 3.2 million employees of the Italian public administrations will all have to return to the office from October 15, warned their minister on Saturday. Public administration employees, starting with “counter and office employees”, will a priori all have to give up teleworking, which will only be an option in very specific cases being negotiated with the unions. i
10:50 a.m. India will export 8 million Covid-19 vaccines in October.
India will export eight million doses of the coronavirus vaccine by the end of October, after lifting its ban on sending doses abroad, according to a senior foreign ministry official. Most of the vaccines will go to nations in the Asia-Pacific region, where those countries seek to counter China's growing influence, Foreign Minister Harsh Vardhan Shringla said.
10:35 am.
European Union and United States announce global partnership for immunization.
The goal is to vaccinate 70% of the world's vaccinated population by next year.
This partnership should, according to the EU, make it possible to increase production and eliminate bottlenecks in the supply chain.
EU & US announce Global Partnership for Immunization 🇪🇺🤝🇺🇸
Our target: 70% of the world's population vaccinated by next year 🌍
This partnership will increase production & eliminate bottlenecks bottleneck in the supply chain. # UNGA pic.twitter.com/2bUIhvLzos
- European Commission 🇪🇺 (@UEFrance) September 25, 2021
10 hours.
Sri Lanka is asking the United Arab Emirates for help to buy oil.
Sri Lanka, facing a serious shortage of foreign exchange due to the epidemic, is seeking help from the United Arab Emirates to buy oil at low prices.
With a 3.6% contraction in its economy, commercial banks are running out of dollars to finance essential imports.
9:30 am.
Installation, Monday, of the WHO global training center in Lyon.
French President Emmanuel Macron and the head of the World Health Organization Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus will set up in Lyon on Monday the global training center of this powerful UN agency, on the front line in the face of the pandemic. Equipped with cutting-edge educational technologies such as artificial intelligence and virtual reality and a world-class health emergency simulation center. The academy, partly funded by local communities, will open its doors in 2023 at the Gerland biotechnology research center in Lyon, which houses the International Cancer Research Center and pharmaceutical groups such as Sanofi. The new structure will be an integral part of the WHO and will be placed under the executive direction of the former French Minister of Health Agnès Buzyn,who was appointed to this post by the head of WHO last August 16.
9:10. The return of Fashion week in Paris.
After the Fashion Weeks in New York, London and Milan, Paris is back for the show, with around thirty face-to-face parades and the holding of spectacular exhibitions dedicated to fashion. The women's ready-to-wear week, which runs from September 27 to October 5, will bring together nearly a hundred fashion houses. A third will invite the public with a health pass. In addition, the Museum of Decorative Arts (MAD) is hosting from September 30 an exhibition dedicated to the creative madness of Thierry Mugler, the pioneer of the show parade. Jean Paul Gaultier, who hung up his scissors in 2020, presents from October 6 an exhibition at the Cinémathèque where he will “parade” costumes from films that have marked fashion.
9 hours. The health pass from September 30 for young people aged 12 and 2 months to 17 years.
Small reminder: on this date, adolescents will have to protect themselves from the health pass to have access to restaurants, museums, cinemas or swimming pools, etc. required between the date of the second dose and obtaining the health pass), either present a negative PCR or antigen test of less than 72 hours, or present a certificate proving recovery from Covid19 dating more than 11 days and less than 6 months.
8.45 a.m.
Stabilization of cases and hospitalizations in Belgium.
Between September 15 and 21, 2,020 new contaminations were detected on average per day, up 1% compared to the previous week, according to the Sciensano public health institute in Belgium.
Over the same period, 5.7 people died per day on average as a result of the virus (-22%), bringing the toll to 25,554 deaths since the start of the pandemic in Belgium.
7.40 am.
Some 185 demonstrations against the health pass this Saturday in France.
Between 60,000 and 80,000 demonstrators against the health pass are expected throughout France, according to a police source.
Four processions are planned in Paris, like last week.
7:15 am.
Antibody boost with a third dose of Pfizer vaccine, after two doses of Coronavac.
According to a study, a third injection of the German-American vaccine Pfizer-BioNTech after two injections of the Chinese vaccine Coronavac multiplies by 20 the level of antibodies against Covid-19, according to the preliminary results of a study carried out in Uruguay where 24% of the population had access to this vaccination schedule.
7:10.
Reopening of the terraces in Cuba.
Cuban authorities have announced the "gradual" reopening of restaurants and bars in much of the country, as well as legal and notarial services, all closed since January due to the coronavirus pandemic.
7:05 am. The vaccine recall campaign launched in the United States.
Some 60 million Americans are now eligible to receive a third dose of Pfizer's anti-Covid vaccine six months after their second injection, said Joe Biden, after a regulatory marathon that highlighted the divisions of the scientific community on the matter. The American health authorities finally recommended this booster dose for three categories of the population: people aged 65 and over, those between 18 and 64 years old with risk factors for developing a serious form of the disease (diabetes, obesity, etc.) , as well as those very exposed to the coronavirus within the framework of their work or their place of life.
7 hours.
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