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Covid-19: the army sends more than 100 tons of medical oxygen to Martinique

2021-08-16T15:47:33.730Z


UPDATE ON THE SITUATION - New measures, new reports and highlights: Le Figaro takes stock of the latest developments in the Covid-19 pandemic around the world.


Health control in large shopping centers, medical oxygen sent by the army to Martinique, vaccine pass in force in New York ...

Le Figaro

takes stock this Monday, August 16 on the latest information related to the Covid pandemic.

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  • Health pass: chain checks in large shopping centers in France

After bars, restaurants, hospitals and trains, more than 120 large shopping centers and stores in the Paris region and the southern half of France now systematically control the health pass, a step generally well received despite some tensions in the face of security guards. Made possible by law for a week, this filtering was imposed by the prefects at the request of the government, for surfaces of more than 20,000 m2 in the departments where the incidence rate exceeds 200 per 100,000 inhabitants over a week.

In addition to Paris and four departments in its suburbs (Seine-Saint-Denis, Val d'Oise, Val-de-Marne, Hauts-de-Seine), the departments concerned in mainland France are the Alpes-Maritimes, Bouches-du-Rhône, Charente-Maritime, Corse-du-Sud, Gard, Haute-Garonne, Gironde, Hérault, Landes, Pyrénées-Orientales, Rhône, Haute-Savoie, Var and Vaucluse.

Like bars and restaurants, which have benefited from a week of tolerance, the supermarkets concerned risk from Monday an administrative closure, or even a year of imprisonment and a 9,000 euro fine for their operators if they do not carry out the procedures. controls.

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  • The army sends more than 100 tons of medical oxygen to Martinique

Florence Parly, Minister of the Armed Forces, announced on Monday the delivery of more than 100 tonnes of medical oxygen to Martinique which, like its neighbor Guadeloupe, is experiencing an explosion of cases of the Delta variant. "

The overseas support and assistance vessel (BSAOM) Dumont d'Urville of the French Navy set sail on the evening of August 15 from Guyana

", it "

should dock in Fort-de-France on August 19 for make these oxygen stocks available to the Regional Health Agency

, ”the Ministry of the Armed Forces said in a press release. "

We are planning several rotations in order to continue this flow of oxygen supply from Guyana to the West Indies

", Specified the minister on France Info.

This supply must also concern Guadeloupe, according to the local regional health agency.

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  • The vaccine pass in effect in New York

The vaccination pass goes into effect on Monday in New York, the first major American city to have announced it: proof of vaccination will be required to go to a certain number of closed places such as restaurants, theaters or sports halls. sport.

A transition period is planned for this system called "

Key to NYC

" before the first checks in a month.

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  • No more isolation for contact cases in England

Despite the wave of Covid-19 contamination due to the Delta variant, vaccinated contact cases no longer have to isolate themselves from Monday in England, removing a major obstacle to economic recovery.

Building on the success of the vaccination campaign (more than three quarters of adults fully vaccinated), Boris Johnson's government lifted almost all of the last restrictions in force in mid-July, such as wearing a mask, physical distancing or gauges in theaters.

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  • Prolonged confinement in Melbourne

The confinement of Melbourne, Australia's second city, was extended by two weeks on Monday, until September 2, and it will be accompanied by a curfew, authorities said in trying to stem a surge in Covid -19 due to the Delta variant.

Melbourne's more than five million people will not be allowed to leave their homes between 9 p.m. and 5 a.m. from Monday, except for people working in sectors deemed essential.

Read also: Covid-19: without the vaccination and the health pass, would the government have already had to close certain places?

  • Chinese virologist accused

A scientist in China, on the front line in the management of the coronavirus epidemic, is the target of an investigation for plagiarism, after having publicly questioned the Chinese strategy to fight against Covid.

Zhang Wenhong, media expert in infectious diseases from Shanghai, had expressed his doubts at the end of July about the Chinese zero Covid strategy, believing that it was necessary rather "to

learn to live with the virus

".

These words, which seemed to call into question the success of national health management, had provoked a lively debate in the country.

»SEE ALSO - Reconfinement, mass tests: China is fighting against an upsurge in Covid-19 cases

  • Serbia to offer third dose of vaccine

Serbia will offer its population a third dose of the Covid-19 vaccine as the country experiences an increase in the number of cases, the government announced on Monday.

First off to a good start, the vaccination campaign in Serbia ran out of steam after the immunization of around 40% of some seven million inhabitants.

Immunologists have blamed the increase in the number of people infected with the coronavirus on the Delta variant, which particularly affects the unvaccinated.

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  • Vaccination soon compulsory to travel to New Caledonia

New Caledonia, a rare territory free of Covid-19, will make vaccination compulsory to enter its territory, for fear of the Delta variant and after the weakening of its sanitary airlock, the local government announced on Monday.

This turn of the screw comes at a time when the health protocol currently in force, which imposes 7 days of isolation in a hotel for passengers vaccinated with messenger RNA and 14 days for the unvaccinated, has just been weakened by court decisions.

Several people were able to leave isolation prematurely, without PCR testing or serology carried out in Noumea.

Read also: Covid-19: in the United States, pregnant women called to be vaccinated as soon as possible

  • Sri Lanka's health minister impeached

Sri Lanka's health minister was dismissed on Monday for her management of the coronavirus epidemic in the country where the number of contaminations and deaths continues to increase.

In January, the minister had encouraged the consumption of a so-called "

magic potion

" against the virus, concocted by a wizard and that she herself had tasted publicly.

She also performed a ceremony at the direction of a self-proclaimed god who claimed that she could end the pandemic on the island by pouring "

holy

"

water

into a river.

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  • Paralympics behind closed doors

The Tokyo Paralympic Games will be held in near total closed doors, the organizing committee announced on Monday eight days before the opening ceremony, due to the record numbers of Covid-19 cases in Japan.

This measure for the Paralympic Games, which are to be held from August 24 to September 5, is similar to that adopted for the Olympics closed on August 8, for which nearly 98% of the events were held behind closed doors.

  • More than 4.3 million dead

The coronavirus pandemic has killed at least 4,361,805 people around the world, according to a report established by AFP. The United States is the most affected country in terms of both deaths and cases, with 621,635 deaths, ahead of Brazil (569,058 deaths) and India (431,642 deaths). The World Health Organization 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 calculated from official figures.

Source: lefigaro

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