Israel introduces vaccination in schools at the start of the school year, Valneva launches an authorization request, Pfizer's vaccine fully authorized in the United States ...
Le Figaro
takes stock this Monday, August 23 on the latest information related to the pandemic.
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108 deaths in 24 hours, 2,215 patients in critical care
The Covid epidemic continues to spread in France, where 108 deaths have been counted in the past 24 hours, according to Public Health France.
2,215 patients are currently in critical care, of which 235 have arrived since the day before.
In total, 11,007 patients are hospitalized - 943 have been since Sunday.
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United States Fully Authorizes Pfizer's Covid Vaccine
The United States on Monday fully approved the Pfizer / BioNTech alliance vaccine for people 16 and older, the U.S. regulator said, a move that should help bolster vaccination efforts in the country.
Pfizer's vaccine had been granted emergency authorization since December.
It continues to be available to children and adolescents aged 12 to 15 under this conditional authorization, the FDA said.
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Israel introduces vaccinations in schools at the start of the school year
Israel has announced to set up vaccination stands in schools at the start of the school year to strengthen the immunity of the youngest, in a context of increased contamination in the country which allows vaccination from 12 years old.
Students "
will be vaccinated on school premises during school hours, subject to parental authorization,
" the Israeli government said, with the start of the school year now on September 1.
Students under 12 will need to show parental consent to be tested for the coronavirus.
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Vaccine: Valneva launches an authorization request
The Franco-Austrian laboratory Valneva has announced that it has started the gradual submission of its request for authorization of its candidate vaccine against Covid-19 to the British health authorities.
The laboratory's Phase 3 trials, which uses a deactivated virus vaccine, are still ongoing.
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UK orders 35 million additional doses by end of 2022
The British government has announced that it is ordering 35 million additional doses of the Covid-19 vaccine from the Pfizer / BioNTech alliance for delivery from the second half of 2022, in order to protect itself from the coronavirus and its variants "
for years to come
". This contract is in addition to more than 500 million doses, including 100 million from Pfizer / BioNTech, already ordered by the United Kingdom, one of the countries most affected in Europe by the pandemic (more than 131,000 deaths). The amount of the new contract was not specified while the Pfizer and Moderna laboratories increased their prices for new orders from the EU, which the French authorities explained by the need to adapt to the variants.
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Spanish justice refuses to restore curfew in Barcelona
The Spanish justice rejected the request of the Catalan regional government to re-establish a curfew in Barcelona and in several dozen other cities of Catalonia (north-eastern Spain), judging the measure "
even more unnecessary and disproportionate
" face improving the epidemiological situation.
This decision of the Superior Court of Justice of Catalonia (TSJC) confirms the one it took on Thursday, when it authorized the maintenance of the curfew between 1 a.m. and 6 a.m. in only 19 of the 148 municipalities on the list submitted by the Catalan executive.
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China: no new cases
China, faced in recent weeks with an epidemic rebound linked to the Delta strain, did not report any new cases of Covid-19 of local origin on its soil on Monday, which is a first for a month and leaves to think that the spread is contained.
The Asian country, which had largely controlled the Covid epidemic since the spring of 2020, has been facing the largest epidemic rebound since July in terms of geographic extent, since the appearance of the first cases in the country at the end of 2019.
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by eight times
"the risk of being contaminated by Covid-19, assures Jérôme Salomon
Containment maintained in New Zealand
New Zealand again maintained its national containment on Monday in the face of the progression of the Covid-19 epidemic, Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern saying that the wave of contaminations caused by the Delta variant had not yet reached its peak.
The Prime Minister said it was too early to lift the restrictions after the appearance last week of the first locally-sourced Covid case, detected in an Auckland resident.
More than 4.43 million dead
The Covid-19 pandemic has killed at least 4,430,846 people worldwide since the end of December 2019. The United States is the most affected country with 628,503 deaths, ahead of Brazil (574,527 dead), India (434,756 ), Mexico (253,155) and Peru (197,879). 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 calculated from official figures.
