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Public health France identified 59,019 new SARS-CoV-2 contaminations on Tuesday evening in 24 hours.
168 new deaths have been recorded, and more than 12,700 people are hospitalized for a complication due to Covid.
687,000 booster vaccinations were performed Tuesday in France.
By January, vaccination should open, without obligation, to all children aged 5 to 11.
A subject that raises many questions.
Portugal has also opened vaccination to this age group.
Sweden, which at the start of the pandemic had chosen to let the virus circulate, is already planning to extend its vaccination pass - set up for certain indoor gatherings for eight days - to restaurants and sports halls.
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6:50 a.m.
Cuba will vaccinate from 2 years old.
Cuba has approved the emergency use of its Soberana Plus vaccine for children over 2 convalescing from Covid-19, the country's drug regulatory authority (Cecmed) said on Tuesday evening.
The booster vaccination started this week in Havana.
6:40 am. A million expired vaccines thrown away in Nigeria?
The doses of AstraZeneca arrived, delivered from Europe, through the Covax sharing system. For some lots, the expiration dates were too short for him, due to the country's poor logistics, to administer them on time, but for others, they could not find a buyer. This is according to Reuters one of the largest single dose losses that shows the difficulty of African nations to get vaccinated. Africa's most populous country, home to more than 200 million people, has fully immunized less than 4% of adults, according to the WHO.
6.30 a.m. Omicron no worse than Delta.
The variant that appeared on November 24 in South Africa does not seem more dangerous than Delta, which circulates the most in the world, is the joint feeling of a senior scientist from the World Health Organization. “The general behavior we are seeing so far shows no increase in severity. In fact, some places in southern Africa are reporting milder symptoms, ”said Michael Ryan, the WHO emergency manager, in a rare interview with AFP last night. "We have very effective vaccines that have been shown to be potent against all of the variants so far, in terms of disease severity and hospitalization, and there is no reason to believe that would not be the case. With Omicron, he added.
6:20 a.m.
Curfew built in Martinique.
It remains in place in 14 municipalities against 21 previously, with a schedule delayed to 8 p.m. or even 10 p.m. depending on the case, against 7 p.m. so far.
But "the health situation in Martinique is deteriorating more and more", estimated the prefect in his press release, assuring that "the epidemiological indicators" are more and more worrying.
# Press release |
Evolution of the curfew and strengthening of sanitary measures ⬇️ pic.twitter.com/K84mwcR9jn
- Prefect of Martinique (@ Prefet972) December 7, 2021
6:10 am.
No vaccination pass to enter Brazil.
Brazil excludes requiring a vaccination certificate for foreigners arriving on its soil.
The Brazilian health regulator had recommended it but President Jair Bolsonaro compared this measure to a "leash" for animals.
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