In France, patients hospitalized and admitted to intensive care are still fewer, the G7 is committed to a billion doses, Peru exceeds two million cases, the European Medicines Agency wants to abandon the AstraZeneca vaccine ... Here is point of the Monday, June 14, 2021 on the latest developments in the Covid-19 pandemic around the world.
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Covid-19: vaccination as the only remedy
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In France, the hospitalization and resuscitation figures continue to drop
France had 12,480 people hospitalized because of Covid-19, a figure at the lowest since mid-October, according to data from Public Health France.
The decline in the number of patients treated in critical care, for the most serious forms, also continued, with 2,106 patients, the lowest since October 19.
Same scenario for the daily number of new admissions to these services, with only 26 patients.
A traditionally low figure on Sunday, but for which it is necessary to go back to last September 20 (24 patients in intensive care units) to find such a low one.
The country was then at the very beginning of the second wave of the epidemic.
The G7 commits to a billion doses
The leaders of the great powers of the G7 affirmed on Sunday their desire to end the Covid-19 pandemic by committing to the redistribution of a billion doses of vaccines by the end of 2022, in favor of poor countries.
"The leaders are committed to more than a billion doses"
by financing them or via the Covax sharing device, welcomed the British Prime Minister Boris Johnson, at the end of a three-day summit in Cornwall (south west of England).
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In Texas, defeat of vaccinosceptics
"Receiving a vaccination against Covid-19 is not an illegal act"
: a US judge dismissed the lawsuit of more than 100 employees of one of the largest hospitals in Texas, who challenged the obligation to get vaccinated against Covid-19.
According to the 117 employees, the requirement of the Methodist Hospital in Houston was illegal, since at the time the available injections were reserved for the priority people and not yet extended to the whole population.
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Peru exceeds 2 million cases
Peru, hard hit by the pandemic, has crossed the threshold of two million cases of Covid-19 contamination, a threshold that has gone almost unnoticed in this country which is waiting to know the results of the presidential election.
Some 2,001,059 people have been infected with Covid and 188,443 have died, according to the latest figures from the Peruvian Ministry of Health on Sunday.
Lebanon: 40,000 people vaccinated in one weekend
Lebanon announced that it had administered more than 40,000 doses of vaccine as part of a “marathon” vaccination campaign organized Saturday and Sunday by the Ministry of Health.
Lebanon, mired in its worst economic crisis since the civil war (1975-1990), has officially recorded more than 542,000 cases of Covid-19 since the start of the pandemic, including more than 7,700 deaths.
Abandon the AstraZeneca vaccine?
A senior official at the European Medicines Agency (EMA) said in an interview published on Sunday that it would be better to stop AstraZeneca's vaccine for all age groups when alternatives are available.
Marco Cavaleri, head of vaccine strategy at EMA, further told Italian newspaper
La Stampa
that Johnson & Johnson's single-dose vaccine should preferably be used for those over 60 years of age.
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Portugal: the president rules out a return to restrictions
Portugal has faced an increase in the number of cases for a month, especially in Lisbon, but President Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa vehemently ruled out a possible reinstatement of restrictions on Sunday.
“We will not go back.
The question is not to know if we can or if we must, it will not happen.
Not with me, ”
said the head of state, a conservative who has no executive powers but whose influence weighs on the decisions of the socialist government of Antonio Costa.
South Africa withdraws two million Johnson & Johnson vaccines
South Africa, lagging behind in vaccination and which has just entered a third wave of the Covid-19 pandemic, announced on Sunday to withdraw two million Johnson & Johnson (J&J) vaccines, due to
"a nonconformity problem ”
when manufactured in the United States.
The South African Medicines Agency (Sahpra) said in a statement that it had
"taken the decision not to distribute vaccines produced from batches of inappropriate drug components"
.
Read also: Europe's green light for Johnson & Johnson vaccine
A Copa America and a Euro marked by the Covid
Teams from Venezuela, Bolivia and Colombia were struck by positive cases for the coronavirus on Saturday and Sunday a few hours before the opening of the 2021 Copa América in Brazil, a country itself seriously affected by the pandemic.
The South American Football Confederation (Conmebol) had on the other hand reported a little earlier of 13 infected people, specifying:
"All are asymptomatic" and "isolated".
On the Euro side, Spain, deprived of its captain Sergio Busquets, and Sweden, also weakened by the coronavirus, clash without several of their stars this Monday (9 p.m., 7 p.m. GMT), the day of entry into the running of one of the figures of this championship: the Pole Robert Lewandowski.
More than 3.79 million dead
The pandemic has killed more than 3,797,342 people around the world since the end of December 2019, according to a report established by AFP from official sources on Sunday at 10:00 GMT.
After the United States (599,768 dead), the countries with the highest number of deaths are Brazil (487,401), India (370,384), Mexico (230,095) and Peru (188,443), the latter country deploring the higher death toll in relation to its population.
These figures, which are based on daily reports from national health authorities, are generally underestimated.
The World Health Organization (WHO) estimates that the toll of the pandemic could be two to three times higher than that officially recorded.