Covid-19: slight increase in cases in France, Pfizer requests authorization of its vaccine for 5-11 year olds in Canada ...

The essential

• In France, 41 new deaths from Covid-19 have been recorded in the past 24 hours.

  A total of 117,306 people have lost their lives since the start of the epidemic.

• The hospitalization curve goes up very slightly in France with 6,468 Covid-19 patients, including 1,049 people in critical care.

• Since Monday, in 12 new departments, the mask is no longer compulsory at school.

  For a week, 68 were already affected by this measure.

• The European Union has exported more than a billion doses of anti-Covid vaccines.

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6:45 am.

Pfizer is seeking authorization for its vaccine for 5-11 year olds in Canada.

The Pfizer / BioNTech alliance is submitting an authorization request to Health Canada for the use of its Covid-19 vaccine in children aged 5 to 11, say pharmaceutical companies and the Canadian government.

"This is the first request that Health Canada receives for the use of a vaccine against Covid-19 in this age group," said the Ministry of Health in a press release.

6:40 am.

Almost half the number of screening tests carried out since they are no longer free.

According to figures from Public Health France, 379,242 tests were carried out on Friday (the date of entry into force of the end of free PCR and so-called “comfort” antigen tests), against 690,248 the previous one.

6:35 am.

Nearly 100 million injections performed in France.

On the vaccination side, to date, more than 97,677,990 injections have been performed.

Since the start of the vaccination campaign, 51,096,875 people have received at least one injection, or 75.8% of the total population, and 49,581,680 people now have a complete vaccination schedule, which corresponds to 73.5% of the total population.

6.30 a.m.

41 new deaths in France in the last 24 hours.

A total of 117,306 people have lost their lives since the start of the epidemic.

Side hospitalizations, after weeks of decline, the curve is reversed again and slightly increases with 6,468 patients of Covid-19 including 1,049 people in critical care.

6:20 am.

With one billion doses, the EU is the “world's leading exporter of vaccines”

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Japan, Turkey and Great Britain were the main recipients of these doses produced on the continent.

And only 87 million were sent to poor countries.

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6:10 am.

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