No spectators at the Tokyo Olympics, France dissuades French travelers from going to Spain and Portugal, concerns around the Euro final ...
Le Figaro
takes stock this Thursday, July 7 on the latest related information to the Covid-19 pandemic.
To discover
Covid-19: what we know about the Delta variant
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Less than 1000 intensive care patients
The pressure on hospitals continues to decrease.
This Thursday, 7,384 patients suffering from Covid-19 were hospitalized in France, against 7,539 on Wednesday.
Among them, 100 people entered the hospital in the past 24 hours.
The decline is also continuing in the intensive care units.
971 patients were in intensive care this Thursday, against 997 the day before.
26 were admitted in the last 24 hours.
25 people have also died in hospital, bringing the toll since the start of the pandemic to 84,811 dead in French hospitals.
Conversely, the number of cases was up on Wednesday since 4,081 new cases were detected against 3,585 the day before.
The test positivity rate was 0.9%.
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Paris advises against Spain and Portugal
Faced with the rapid spread of the Delta variant, the French Secretary of State for European Affairs advises the French to "avoid Spain and Portugal" this summer.
"Those who have not yet booked their holidays, avoid Spain, Portugal in your destinations, it's a word of caution,"
said Clément Beaune.
"It is a recommendation on which I insist, it is better to stay in France or go to other countries (...), we have a situation which is particularly worrying"
.
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More than 100 million tests in France
Since March 2020, more than 100 million screening tests have been carried out in France, according to public statistics.
Supported 100% by Health Insurance, the tests cost 2.2 billion euros in 2020 and Social Security expects to spend an additional 4.9 billion this year.
The Academy of Medicine suggests waiving tests
"for personal convenience"
, that is to say without medical reason.
A track studied by the government,
"probably in September".
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Euro: a Delta variant focus in France
An outbreak of nine positive cases for the Delta variant was detected in the Vosges (eastern France) among supporters returning from Hungary where they had attended a Portugal match at Euro football.
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Olympics to be held behind closed doors in Tokyo
There will be
"no spectators"
on the sites of the Olympic Games in Tokyo which will open on July 23, due to the resurgence of the coronavirus in the Japanese capital, announced Thursday the Minister of the Olympics Tamayo Marukawa.
This announcement comes a few hours after the decision of the Japanese government to reinstate a state of health emergency in Tokyo from Monday until August 22, a device that will thus encompass the entire period of the Olympics, which last until the 8th. August.
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"In many regions, the number of new cases (of Covid-19) has decreased, but it has continued to increase since the end of last month in the greater Tokyo region,"
said the Japanese prime minister.
The more infectious Delta variant now accounts for around 30% of cases in Japan.
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Luxembourg Prime Minister Xavier Bettel left hospital
Luxembourg Prime Minister Xavier Bettel, hospitalized on Sunday after contracting Covid-19, left the hospital on Thursday
"due to the improvement in his state of health,"
the government announced in a press release. The 48-year-old liberal leader will resume his teleworking duties from Friday until the end of the week, a period that corresponds to the end of his period of isolation, the statement said.
Xavier Bettel suffered from breathing difficulties and his state of health had been described as
"serious" on
Monday.
But he
“had not been intubated,”
one of his collaborators
told
AFP.
The prime minister was hospitalized a week after going into solitary confinement at the end of June following a positive coronavirus test.
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Paris test concert: no increased risk of Covid contamination
This is good news for the current music sector: the Indochina test concert, which was held on May 29 in Paris in front of a masked crowd, demonstrated
"the absence of increased risk of infection"
to Covid- 19, according to the results released Thursday by the Assistance publique-Hôpitaux de Paris (AP-HP).
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The presence
"at a concert was not associated with an increased risk of transmission of (Covid-19) during a concert in a standing configuration, without physical distancing, in masked people with a negative antigen test in a closed room"
, specifies the AP-HP.
However, the experiment took place when the Delta variant, more transmissible and whose expansion worries, was clearly less present than today.
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Euro final: concerns of officials
Many European officials are expressing their concern about the final of the Euro football which will take place in London on Sunday between the English and the Italians.
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It will likely be
"the largest crowd gathered for a sporting event for more than 15 months in the UK",
according to the British government as the number of Covid-19 cases due to the Delta variant soars and has reached nearly than 30,000 cases per day this week.
The gauge, increased during the semi-finals and the final, has already reached 64,950 spectators on Wednesday, according to the UEFA organizer.
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Removal of quarantine for vaccinated Britons returning from several tourist countries
British residents who are fully vaccinated will soon be exempt from quarantine when they return to England from many countries placed on the “orange” list, including tourist destinations such as France, Spain and Italy, the British government announced on Thursday.
This measure, which is part of the lifting of the last restrictions linked to the coronavirus in the United Kingdom scheduled for July 19, called
"freedom day"
, was long demanded by tourism professionals, severely affected by the pandemic.
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Fifty investigations in Moscow for false medical papers
"Fifty-five criminal investigations have been opened,"
said a senior Moscow police official, Pavel Milovanov, on Thursday, quoted by the official TASS agency.
According to him, the majority of them relate to the purchase of false vaccination certificates and those attesting to a negative result in a PCR test.
A criminal investigation for fraud was also opened against a person having acquired for 9000 rubles (approximately 100 euros) a fake QR-code to go to the restaurant.
According to Russian law, this offense is punishable by penalties of up to two years in prison.
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Over four million dead
The pandemic has killed at least 4,004,966 people around the world since the end of December 2019, according to a report established Thursday by AFP from official sources.
The United States is the most affected country in terms of both deaths and cases, with 606,218 deaths for 33,770,459 cases, according to the Johns Hopkins University count.
After the United States, the most affected countries are Brazil with 528,540 deaths and 18,909,037 cases, India with 405,028 deaths (30,709,557 cases), Mexico with 234,192 deaths (2,558,369 cases), and the Peru with 193,743 deaths (2,071,637 cases).
