More than four million deaths worldwide, calls for vaccination in France, skyrocketing deaths in Indonesia ...
Le Figaro
takes stock this Wednesday, July 7 on the latest information related to the Covid-19 pandemic.
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997 patients in intensive care
The pressure on hospitals continues to decrease.
This Wednesday, 7,539 patients suffering from Covid-19 were hospitalized in France, against 7,637 on Tuesday.
Among them, 140 people entered the hospital in the last 24 hours.
The decline is also continuing in the intensive care units.
997 patients were in intensive care on Wednesday, against 1,032 the day before.
30 were admitted in the last 24 hours.
28 people have also died in hospital, bringing the toll since the start of the pandemic to 84,786.
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Worried About Delta Variant, Government Should Take Further Steps To Avoid "Fourth Wave"
The government intends to take new measures next week to prevent a
"rapid fourth wave"
linked to the Delta variant of Covid-19 from hitting the end of the crisis promised by Emmanuel Macron.
The Head of State will chair an exceptional Health Defense Council on Monday to decide in particular on the vaccination obligation for caregivers and the extension of the health pass.
The head of state must then speak to the French, by July 14.
He
"will take into account health data"
, according to government spokesman Gabriel Attal, to lay the groundwork for his action for the rest of his five-year term.
After a few weeks of calm, the government is not hiding its concerns on the Covid front.
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The virus
"is gaining ground again"
because of the Delta variant which is
"formidable and extremely fast"
, and now represents
"more than 40% of contaminations"
in France, said Gabriel Attal after the Council of Ministers.
The number of new cases has seen
"an increase of more than 20% in seven days"
and
"among 20-29 year olds, the incidence rate has practically doubled in one week",
he explained.
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"Get vaccinated!": Olivier Véran reiterates his calls for vaccination
"The call to the French is not" stay at home, but get vaccinated "
,
"
again launched the Minister of Health during a speech to representatives of caregivers on Wednesday.
"A new wave is not inevitable and should not be considered as such,"
added Olivier Véran, however, before encouraging caregivers to be vaccinated.
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“The vaccine dynamic started very strongly among caregivers and then stabilized. Today, more than 60% of health professionals are vaccinated. Among them, 80% of liberal caregivers, 64% in the hospital sector and 60% of nursing staff in nursing homes
", he detailed before adding:
" My desire is not to stigmatize this or that category of professionals .
Vaccination is an opportunity for our country.
Offering the vaccine to caregivers is giving them the opportunity to protect themselves ”.
The minister will publish a new decree
"in a few days"
which will expand the list of professionals authorized to vaccinate.
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The pandemic has killed more than four million people worldwide
The world has crossed the
“tragic”
threshold
of four million dead from Covid-19, the World Health Organization announced on Wednesday when the pandemic, far from over, is resuming under the impetus of the very contagious Delta variant.
"We have just passed the tragic milestone of four million listed Covid-19 deaths
,
"
said WHO boss Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, adding that this toll was
"most certainly
" undervalued.
He warned that the
"world was at a dangerous point in this pandemic," which
appeared in China at the end of 2019, due to the new variants and the lifting of health restrictions.
WHO has warned against lifting restrictions too broadly, including in countries with high vaccination rates.
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WHO warns against lifting health restrictions too broadly
The WHO warned on Wednesday against lifting too broad the health restrictions put in place to try to curb the Covid-19 pandemic, including in countries with a high vaccination rate.
"I call for the most extreme caution regarding the total lifting of health and social restrictions at this time, because this will have consequences,"
said Dr Mike Ryan, in charge of health emergencies at the WHO, during a press conference, where he was asked about the British authorities' plan to lift the remaining restrictions linked to the virus on July 19.
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Soaring deaths in Indonesia and new restrictions
The fourth most populous country in the world with nearly 270 million inhabitants, Indonesia reported on Wednesday 1,040 deaths attributed to the coronavirus over 24 hours, a record, while the daily number of new infections stood at 34,379 .
Drastic restrictions were already in place on the islands of Java and Bali to deal with the spread of the highly contagious Delta variant, but new measures will now apply to dozens of cities from Sumatra (West) to West Papua ( East), the government decided.
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China: a new home on the Burmese border
Almost free from Covid since 2020, China reported on Wednesday a growing focus of the virus in a small town on the border with Burma, a politically unstable country where the epidemic is raging.
The police of the Chinese province of Yunnan (southwest) reinforced their presence near the border in order to prevent any illegal entry into the territory.
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American decision to come on French travelers
A
"decision"
concerning the entry into the United States of travelers arriving from France, a country still considered
"orange"
at the health level by the American authorities, should be made
"in the coming weeks"
, the French Secretary of State said on Wednesday. in charge of Tourism Jean-Baptiste Lemoyne.
“There is an asymmetry because we say welcome to the Americans, 'welcome back'.
Unfortunately, the converse is not yet true, ”
he stressed.
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Towards a state of emergency in Tokyo, in the midst of the Olympic Games
The Japanese government plans to declare a new state of emergency in Tokyo, which should cover the entire period of the Olympic Games which open in two weeks in the capital, to deal with the increase in Covid-19 cases, reported Wednesday several local media.
The state of emergency, the fourth since the start of the pandemic, will run until August 22, according to these media, while the Tokyo Games are being held from July 23 to August 8.
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Compulsory vaccination in Turkmenistan
Turkmenistan, one of the few states in the world to have reported no cases of Covid-19, announced on Wednesday that it was making vaccination against the virus compulsory in the reclusive Central Asian country.
"All people over 18 without medical contraindications should be vaccinated against Covid-19,"
the Ministry of Health said in a message published in the government newspaper.
