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Covid-19: India exceeds the threshold of 4,000 deaths per day

2021-05-10T01:34:58.823Z


SITUATION UPDATE - The virus is now spreading the most rapidly in rural areas in the south of the country. The epidemic peak is expected within several weeks.


The Covid-19 pandemic has killed at least 3,258,595 worldwide and infected more than 155,981,070 people since the end of 2019, according to a report drawn up by AFP on Friday from official data from the States .

The reality is certainly much higher due to the difficult data reporting in some countries.

Find the main information to remember about the epidemic this Saturday, May 8.

In India, the threshold of 4,000 deaths per day crossed

This is the first time since the start of the epidemic.

India continues to face the world's largest coronavirus outbreak more than ever.

The country of 1.3 billion people recorded 4,197 new deaths in a single day, bringing the cumulative official death toll to 238,270 since the start of the pandemic.

Despite international aid, patients continue to die at the gates of overwhelmed hospitals.

And, according to specialists, the worst is yet to come, with an epidemic peak expected within several weeks.

However, since the beginning of May, the epidemic trajectory is no longer exponential.

Read also: Do ​​Indians die less from Covid-19 than the French?

A week-long lockdown goes into effect on Saturday in the southwestern state of Kerala.

Because it is now in the rural areas of the south of the country that the spread of the virus is the fastest.

The Karnataka region, where Bangalore's large center of technological industries is located, declared a two-week lockdown from Monday in the hope of curbing the contamination.

Elsewhere in Asia, the situation is deteriorating

India's neighbors are not spared.

In Singapore, new restrictions also come into effect on Saturday.

In Japan, the state of emergency, reestablished on April 25 in Tokyo and in three other departments, will be extended there until May 31, when it was initially due to end next Tuesday, and will be reinstated in two other departments.

The pandemic remains limited in the Japanese archipelago but is exhausting the hospital system, especially as vaccination is progressing very slowly.

Read also: Japan's demographic winter is further accelerated by the pandemic

The new outbreak of contamination threatens the Tokyo Olympics (July 23 - August 8), already postponed for a year, even if the vice-president of the International Olympic Committee (IOC), John Coates said on Saturday that nothing will prevent the Games to be done.

Spectators from abroad are excluded and their organizers have yet to decide the issue of the Japanese public.

Viruses on Everest

In Nepal, which is facing a sudden and massive rise in contamination, Covid-19 threatens the mountaineering season and is already raging on "

the roof of the world

" itself - which the government denies.

Last week, the American mountaineer Gina Marie Han-Lee preferred to give up.

After the first day, I took a helicopter to leave the EBC (Everest base camp) and return to Kathmandu.

The Covid situation on the EBC is a real mess,

”she explained on Facebook.

Read also: Size of Everest: battle at the top

In Pakistan, the authorities, fearing an Indian degradation, have tightened the restrictions - schools and restaurants closed, opening hours of shops reduced, army in reinforcement - and prohibit travel in the approach of Eid el- Fitr, the feast marking the end of the fasting month of Ramadan.

A first Chinese vaccine receives the green light from the WHO

The World Health Organization (WHO) has also given emergency approval for the vaccine against Covid Sinopharm.

It is the first Chinese vaccine to receive the green light from the WHO, which recommends it for people 18 years and older.

WHO has also ruled that children should not begin to be immunized until all countries have been able to immunize the elderly and at risk.

Read also: Covid: could Russian and Chinese vaccines be authorized in France?

With 789,500 contaminations recorded daily in the world this week, the indicator fell slightly (-4% compared to the previous week) for the first time in 10 weeks, only Asia experiencing an acceleration (+ 10%) in the wake of India.

The pandemic is slowing down elsewhere: -25% in Africa, -24% in Europe, -13% in the Middle East, -12% in the United States / Canada, -12% in Oceania and -8% in Latin America / Caribbean.

Macron and the "

Anglo-Saxons

"

The divide continues to widen between the poor and struggling nations and the rich countries far better supplied with vaccines.

The head of the WHO once again urged the rich countries members of the G7 to give absolute priority to equitable access to vaccines, believing that the current situation is "

unacceptable

".

"

The most important thing we need now are vaccines, vaccine equity

," said Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, after recalling that the pandemic continues to rage with some 100,000 deaths every week.

Read also: Covid-19: are rich countries monopolizing vaccines?

On the occasion of a European summit in Porto, French President Emmanuel Macron on Friday called on "

the Anglo-Saxons

" to stop "

blocking

" the exports of vaccines and the ingredients necessary to produce them, which would make it possible to strengthen "

global

solidarity

.

Encouraging data in France

The number of Covid-19 patients admitted to intensive care continues to drop in France.

5,106 people were in intensive care on Friday, including 269 admitted in 24 hours, against 5,231 the day before.

In total, hospitals had 26,331 patients suffering from Covid-19, including 1,140 admitted in 24 hours.

19,124 new cases of Covid-19 were also detected in 24 hours, compared to 21,712 on Thursday.

The test positivity rate is down to 6.5%.

227 people died in 24 hours in French hospitals, bringing the total death toll to 106,130.

Read also:

Covid-19: is the virus circulating less in France?

On the vaccination front, 17,492,988 people have received at least one injection (i.e. 26.1% of the total population) and 7,641,172 people have received two injections (i.e. 11.4% of the total population) since the start of the vaccination campaign in France.

617,822 people were vaccinated this Friday, a record.

Among them, 362,680 people received a first dose and 255,142 their second.

Gradual deconfinements in Europe

France, which is slowly deconfining with high levels of circulation of the virus, has extended to seven additional countries (Turkey, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Pakistan, Nepal, United Arab Emirates, Qatar) a mandatory 10-day quarantine for arriving travelers on national soil.

Belgium is also beginning its deconfinement with the reopening on Saturday of the terraces of bars and restaurants.

In Greece, private beaches will reopen on Saturday and museums next week, health officials said in the country, which is preparing for the opening of the tourist season on May 15.

Read also: Is deconfinement faster in France than in other countries?

American support for the lifting of patents on vaccines against Covid aroused strong interest this week, hailed in particular by the United Nations, the African Union, the World Trade Organization (WTO), the World Organization of health, France and Russia. The European Union, so far hostile to such an initiative, said, through Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, "

ready to discuss

".


Source: lefigaro

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