New Caledonia is reconfigured for two weeks, lifting of restrictions in Reunion, the extended health pass in shopping centers ...
Le Figaro
takes stock this Monday, September 6 on the latest information related to the Covid-19 pandemic.
To discover
Covid-19: what we know about the Delta variant
To read also "Pandemic fatigue": the French worn out by the health crisis
The reduced health pass in shopping centers
In France, the health pass will no longer be compulsory from Wednesday at the entrance to shopping centers located in the departments where the incidence rate of the coronavirus has remained below the threshold of 200 per 100,000 inhabitants over one week.
Exceptions remain, in 64 shopping centers of more than 20,000 square meters, located in nine departments.
»SEE ALSO -
Covid-19: anti-health pass invaded the Forum des Halles in Paris
New Caledonia is reconfigured for 15 days after the discovery of three cases
Strict confinement for a period of 15 days will begin on Tuesday, September 7 at noon in New Caledonia, where three indigenous cases of Covid-19 were detected on Monday in the archipelago so far preserved from the disease.
The detection of three cases "
geographically distant
" and "
without links between them
" led the president of the government Louis Mapou (separatist) and the High Commissioner of the Republic in New Caledonia Patrice Faure to announce Monday the strict confinement of the population for a period of 15 days.
Read alsoCovid-19: New Caledonia is reconfigured for 15 days after the discovery of three cases
Reunion is going to deconfine from this Monday
The situation is improving in Reunion, where the confinement in force since July is now lifted on weekdays and the curfew postponed to 9 p.m.
The incidence rate is now 162 cases per 100,000 inhabitants, a level
"very close to that of the metropolis"
, according to the director of the ARS of the island Martine Ladoucette.
Read also Covid-19: a tense back-to-school season in Reunion
Martinique and Guadeloupe still under tension
Hospital pressure remains particularly strong in Martinique where 654 patients are hospitalized, including 151 in critical care, and in Guadeloupe (596, including 89).
A new transfer of covid-19 patients took place on the weekend of September 4 from Guadeloupe.
Twelve serious patients were evacuated to the metropolis where they were hospitalized in hospitals in the Ile-de-France region.
Four more air evacuations are planned this week.
Philippines: restrictions lifted in Manila
The confinement of Manila, in force for a month, will be lifted this week and replaced by localized measures, the Philippine authorities announced on Monday.
An easing of the confinement of the capital, a real economic lung of the country, should allow companies in particular to reopen their doors.
Read also Covid-19: fear of a rebound shakes Asia
End of confinement in New Zealand
New Zealand will end the national containment of the archipelago this week, Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern announced Monday, specifying that it will remain in force in Auckland, the large city on the North Island where the Delta variant is first appeared in mid-August.
On the night of Tuesday to Wednesday, around three million New Zealanders will be able to go out again and schools will reopen on Thursday, for the first time in three weeks, detailed Jacinda Ardern.
»SEE ALSO -
First coronavirus-related death in six months in New Zealand
Life expectancy decreases in Italy
In Italy, Covid-19 has reduced life expectancy by 1.2 years in 2020, and by more than four years in some of the hardest hit provinces, the National Statistical Institute (Istat) announced on Monday.
In 2020, life expectancy at birth was 82 years: 79.7 years for men and 84.4 years for women, against 81 years and 85.3 years in 2019.
Read alsoCovid-19: is the drop in life expectancy as strong for young people as for those over 60?
The differences are significant depending on the region.
In the north, in the provinces of Bergamo and Cremona, the most bereaved in Italy, men lost respectively 4.3 and 4.5 years of life expectancy, women 3.2 and 2.9 years.
»SEE ALSO -
In Italy, thousands of demonstrators mobilized against the health pass
More than 4.56 million dead
The Covid-19 pandemic has killed at least 4,565,622 people around the world since the end of December 2019, according to a report established Monday at 10:00 GMT by AFP from official sources.
The United States is the country with the most deaths (648,472), ahead of Brazil (583,628) and India (440,752), Mexico (263,140) and Peru (198,488).
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.
