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According to the latest figures released by Public Health France, more than 7,974 people are hospitalized due to Covid-19 in the country, including 1,333 patients in critical care.
More than 5.2 million French people have received a booster dose and the Haute Autorité de santé now recommends a booster dose of the vaccine for everyone over 40 years old.
Faced with the violence linked to the mobilizations against the health pass and the vaccination obligation of caregivers in Guadeloupe, the Minister of the Interior Gérald Darmanin announced the sending of a member of the GIGN and the Raid in the overseas department.
Southern Europe, until then spared by a fifth wave, is in turn facing an epidemic recovery.
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8 hours. The Covid highlights the discriminatory biases of medical devices.
In an article published this Sunday in the English newspaper The Sunday Times, the British Minister of Health, Sajid Javid, affirms that the pulse oximeters, machines which make it possible to measure the level of oxygen in the blood, used in particular during the pandemic, work less well on people with dark skin. He indicates that he has launched an independent study to identify possible discriminatory biases in the operation of medical devices, “brought to light” by the Covid-19.
7.45 a.m.
Five incarcerations in Guadeloupe.
According to the Pointe-à-Pitre prosecutor's office, five people have been detained in the last few hours in Guadeloupe, including one for "willful violence with a weapon on a person holding public authority".
Faced with the intensification of the riots in the overseas department, the Minister of the Interior, Gérald Darmanin, announced the dispatch to the island of about fifty members of the elite forces of the GIGN and the Raid.
The latter will be on site this Sunday, announces the minister in a river interview devoted to the Parisian.
A new meeting should take place Monday evening around Prime Minister Jean Castex with parliamentarians and presidents of the assemblies of Guadeloupe, as well as the Minister of Health Olivier Véran.
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Protests are intensifying in the Netherlands and Austria.
Protests against health restrictions turned into riot again on Saturday night in the Netherlands, which last week reintroduced partial containment to deal with a surge in Covid-19 cases.
In Austria, more than 40,000 people gathered in Vienna on Saturday, a stone's throw from the former Hofburg Imperial Palace to denounce "the corona-dictatorship" and "fascism", two days before the entry into force new confinement until December 13.
Vienna, Austria vaccination mandate protest - November 20 2021
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