Emmanuel Macron on the offensive on the networks, new record of contamination in Iran, the Delta variant is spreading in China ...
Le Figaro
takes stock this Monday, August 2 on the latest information related to the Covid pandemic.
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1,232 critical care patients, 51 deaths in 24 hours
The Covid epidemic resumes in France, where 51 patients have died in the past 24 hours, according to the latest report from Public Health France.
1,232 patients are currently in critical care, 95 more since Sunday.
7,840 people are still hospitalized, including 688 since the day before.
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Health pass: after the demonstrations, Macron on the offensive
The weekend's demonstrations against the health pass pushed the executive, Emmanuel Macron in the lead, to go on the offensive, between condemnations of violence and education on vaccines, in the face of the outbreak of the Covid epidemic in almost all the countries. "
Some of you hear false rumors, sometimes anything, it must be said ... So I decided to answer your questions directly.
"Tanned and black T-shirt, the President of the Republic split on Monday a video craft from his summer residence at Fort Brégançon (Var) broadcast on social networks - only a French flag in the background recalling the solemnity of his office.
Because on Saturday, they were more than 200,000 demonstrators throughout France, according to the Ministry of the Interior, to protest against the health pass.
"
We must not give excessive importance to a violent minority
," said Monday on RFI the Secretary of State for European Affairs, Clément Beaune, while acknowledging that there are "
anxieties about the vaccine itself, on how the start of the new school year will go, how will the health pass be put in place
”.
“
That, we must explain it
”, he summoned.
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directly
"their questions on vaccination
The health pass "
should not limit access to care
", according to professionals
The Order of Physicians is "
deeply
concerned about
the conditions of the implementation
" of the health pass in health establishments "
which must not deprive patients of care
", joining some unions and associations.
"
The Order of Physicians recalls that the public service mission assumed by all caregivers is to guarantee access to care for all
", we read in their press release Monday.
The anti-Covid bill, which was adopted definitively on July 25 by Parliament, provides for the obligation of a health pass for non-urgent patients or visitors to health establishments and retirement homes.
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Germany will offer a vaccine booster from September
Germany will offer from September 1 the administration of a booster dose of vaccine against Covid-19 to elderly and vulnerable populations, as well as to people who have not received a messenger RNA vaccine, has decided Monday the Ministry of Health.
"
The booster vaccinations will be carried out with one of the two messenger RNA vaccines (Pfizer or Moderna, editor's note)
", indicates the ministry according to which this decision is "
in the interest of preventive health care
" and takes into account concerns regarding “
reduced or rapidly declining immune response
” in vulnerable people.
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Launch of a special health pass for French expatriates vaccinated abroad
The French government is setting up a special health pass from Monday so that French expatriates living outside the European Union and vaccinated abroad "
with vaccines recognized by the European Medicines Agency
" can return to France and in the EU.
The Ministry for Europe and Foreign Affairs explained in a press release that it had set up a "
specific device allowing French people living abroad vaccinated with one of the vaccines recognized by the European Medicines Agency (EMA) or their equivalent to obtaining a health pass valid on French territory and in Europe
”.
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Hong Kong: compulsory vaccination in certain sectors
Hong Kong officials, teachers and caregivers will have to be vaccinated against Covid-19 or be tested twice a week at their expense, the chief executive of the financial center announced on Monday.
Hong Kong is one of the rare territories in the world to have sufficient doses for the whole of its population, which remains however reluctant to vaccination (36% of people fully vaccinated).
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Sydney: soldiers to ensure compliance with containment
Soldiers were deployed on the streets of Sydney on Monday to ensure that containment was respected, while in Brisbane, measures were extended to try to stem an outbreak of the epidemic.
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Libya receives 2 million doses of Sinopharm vaccine
Libya, which is facing an upsurge in Covid-19 cases, received two million doses of vaccine from the Chinese laboratory Sinopharm on Monday, Libyan Prime Minister Abdelhamid Dbeibah announced, while calling on the population to be vaccinated.
The head of the transitional government also announced the arrival "
in the coming weeks
" of 1.5 million other doses, without specifying the origin.
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Iran: new contamination record
Iran on Monday recorded a new record of Covid-19 infections in 24 hours with more than 37,000 cases, against the backdrop of an accelerating epidemic in the country, which also recorded its highest number of daily deaths ( 411) for three months.
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China: Delta strain spreads
Hundreds of thousands of residents were confined Monday in China in the midst of an epidemic rebound, which has seen the Delta strain spread to the four corners of the country and reach the city of Wuhan, the first affected by the Covid-19 epidemic.
China has virtually eradicated the disease on its soil since the spring of 2020 and life has largely returned to normal, despite the persistence of a few outbreaks of contamination - sporadic and until then very localized.
But since the discovery last month in Nanjing (east) of new cases of Covid-19, this focus has quickly spread.
China reported 55 new cases on Monday.
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caused by the Delta variant
", assures Beijing
Vaccine: Pfizer and Moderna increase their prices
Pharmaceutical companies Pfizer and Moderna will increase the price of their anti-Covid vaccine delivered to the European Union because they have adapted it to variants, the French Secretary of State for European Affairs said on Monday, confirming information from the
Financial Times
.
More than 4.22 million dead
The pandemic has killed more than 4.22 million people worldwide since the end of December 2019. The United States is the country with the most deaths (613,228), ahead of Brazil (556,834) and India (424,773) .
The WHO estimates, taking into account the excess mortality directly and indirectly linked to Covid-19, that the toll of the pandemic could be two to three times higher than that which is officially established.