In France, still encouraging trends
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Covid-19: vaccination as the only remedy
The number of Covid-19 patients in French hospitals continues to slowly decline, including in intensive care units.
Hospitals in France are currently receiving 19,701 Covid-19 patients (against 19,720 the day before).
62 people have died of this disease in hospital in the past 24 hours, against 70 according to data released on Sunday.
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WHO calls for wider sharing of vaccines
The director general of the WHO lamented Monday that a "small group of countries" monopolizes vaccines against Covid, demanding that "at least 10% of the population of each country" can be vaccinated by September.
“More than 75% of all vaccines have been administered in just 10 countries,”
said World Health Organization (WHO) chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus at the opening of the annual meeting of members of the United Nations health agency.
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Malta: European champion of vaccination
Malta, European champion of vaccinations against Covid-19, has injected a first dose to 70% of its population, the Maltese Ministry of Health announced on Monday.
The smallest EU country, which has a population of around 500,000, estimates it has achieved "collective immunity" ahead of its initial predictions, although that term is usually reserved at a higher rate.
Beijing denies that three researchers had the Covid at the end of 2019
China denied Monday that three researchers from the Wuhan Institute of Virology, a city that was once the epicenter of the pandemic, had a disease that required hospital treatment before the virus spread around the world.
Claiming to be based on a US intelligence report, the Wall Street Journal affirms that three researchers from the Chinese laboratory were affected by November 2019 with "symptoms compatible with both those of Covid-19 and a seasonal infection".
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Threshold of 300,000 dead in India
India announced Monday that it has passed the 300,000 coronavirus death mark, becoming the third country in the world to reach that figure, behind the United States and Brazil, as the pandemic continues to rage.
Compared to the population (1.3 billion inhabitants in India), the Indian death rate linked to Covid is much lower than those of these two countries but the death toll is considered undervalued by experts.
At least 115,000 healthcare professionals dead from Covid
At least 115,000 health professionals have been swept away by the Covid-19, the WHO director general said on Monday.
"Many have been infected themselves and, although reports are rare, we estimate that at least 115,000 health and care workers have paid the ultimate price in the service of others,"
he said. asserted.
Washington advises against travel to Japan
The United States on Monday recommended its nationals not to travel to Japan, the host country of the Olympic Games this summer, due to the risks associated with the Covid-19 pandemic.
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Because of the Covid-19, do not travel to Japan"
, it is written on the site of the Department of State, which raised to the highest level its notice to the travelers.
Japan opening its first vaccine pods
Relatively spared by the pandemic compared to other countries, with some 12,000 officially recorded deaths since early 2020, Japan opened its first mass vaccination centers against the coronavirus on Monday in order to accelerate its vaccination campaign, the slowness of which is widely criticized. , less than two months from the Tokyo Olympics (July 23-August 8).
About 2% of the approximately 125 million inhabitants of the archipelago have so far received the two doses of the vaccine.
More than 3.46 million dead
The pandemic has killed at least 3,465,398 people around the world since the end of December 2019, according to a report established by AFP from official sources Monday at 10:00 GMT. After the United States (589,893), the countries with the highest death toll are Brazil (449,068), India (303,720), Mexico (221,647) and the United Kingdom (127,721).
