Vaccination obligation for caregivers in France, the United States which is approaching the peak of the Delta wave, drop in weekly cases for the first time in two months ...
Le Figaro
takes stock this Wednesday, September 15 on the latest information related to the Covid-19 pandemic.
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The vaccination obligation comes into force for 2.7 million caregivers in France
The vaccine obligation against Covid-19 came into force on Wednesday in France for 2.7 million professionals in hospitals and retirement homes or liberal caregivers, home helpers, firefighters and ambulance attendants.
But a small minority still haven't received a first dose.
Offenders are warned: those who cannot justify a first injection, a vaccine contraindication or a recent contamination
"can no longer exercise their activity"
, according to the law of August 5, 2021.
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Mandatory universal vaccination debated in the Senate in October
The Senate dominated by the right-wing opposition will examine on October 13 in the hemicycle, as part of a space reserved for the socialist group, a bill aimed at establishing compulsory universal vaccination against Covid-19.
Its rapporteur Bernard Jomier (PS), rapporteur of the commission of inquiry and then chairman of the information mission on Covid-19, welcomed on Wednesday on Twitter
"the courageous and determined commitment in favor of vaccination"
of the Socialist senators .
The PS bill, notably carried by Bernard Jomier and the chairman of the group Patrick Kanner, aims to complete the article of the public health code relating to the obligation of diphtheria and tetanus vaccinations to add vaccination against Covid- 19.
Socialist parliamentarians have been advocating since the summer
"the progressive obligation of universal vaccination"
against this virus,
"for everyone (except medical contraindication), in a public health approach aimed at obtaining collective protection, alone able to guarantee a return to normal daily life for all ”.
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Confinement completely lifted from Saturday in Reunion
The confinement in force in Reunion since July 31 to curb a new wave of coronavirus will be completely lifted from Saturday and the curfew pushed back to 11:00 p.m., the prefect announced Wednesday in a press release.
"For the fifth consecutive week, the epidemic situation is improving in Reunion,"
explained the prefect Jacques Billant, quoted in the press release, stressing that
"the latest data from Public Health France dated September 11 are (...) ) state of an incidence rate of 99 and a positivity rate of 2.1% ”.
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At the end of July, when the epidemic was in full resurgence, the incidence rate had exceeded 400 per 100,000 inhabitants and the positivity rate had reached 10%.
The prefecture then imposed a ban on movement outside a radius of 10 km around his home (5 km on weekends) and to go out between 7:00 p.m. and 5:00 a.m.
These measures
"perfectly followed by the Réunionese and the Réunionese have made it possible to considerably slow down the epidemic circulation on the territory"
, commented Jacques Billant.
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Drop in weekly cases for the first in two months
With nearly four million new cases of Covid-19 reported worldwide in the week of September 6 to 12, weekly cases fell substantially for the first time in more than two months, reports the World Organization health (WHO).
All regions reported a drop in the number of new cases compared to the previous week, according to the WHO.
The number of deaths worldwide has also fallen, with just over 62,000 new deaths.
Only the Africa region reported an increase in the number of weekly deaths (+ 7%), while the Southeast Asia region reported the largest decrease (20%).
The cumulative number of reported cases worldwide now exceeds 224 million and the cumulative number of deaths is just over 4.6 million.
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The United States is approaching the peak of the Delta wave
The latest wave of coronavirus contaminations in the United States, dominated by the Delta variant, could soon reach its peak, but experts warn against complacency and expect the virus to become part of everyday life for for years to come.
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The seven-day average of daily cases was 172,000 as of Monday, the highest level of that increase even as the rate of the increase slows and cases are down in most states, according to organization data. Covid Act Now.
But more than 1,800 people die every day and more than 100,000 remain hospitalized after falling seriously ill, a grim reminder of the challenge authorities face to immunize enough Americans in the face of misinformation.
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Sydney lifts her curfew
The authorities have announced the lifting of the curfew in the districts of Sydney most affected by the coronavirus, as the number of cases stabilizes and the vaccination rate increases.
This news was seen by residents of Australia's largest city as a first step towards ending a lockdown that has been in effect for nearly three months.
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The European Union will give 200 million doses of vaccines
The European Union will give 200 million additional doses of Covid-19 vaccine to poor countries by mid-2022, in addition to the 250 million doses already promised, announced the President of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen.
While in the EU more than 70% of adults are vaccinated,
“less than 1% of vaccine doses have been administered in poor countries
,” she stressed.
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Vaccination: the Pope scolds the "denialist" cardinals
Pope Francis launched a pick on Wednesday at
"denial"
cardinals who
do not wish to be vaccinated, alluding to his main opponent who recently contracted Covid-19.
“In the College of Cardinals, there are some deniers. One of them, the poor one, caught the virus ”,
declared the sovereign pontiff in the plane which brought him back from an apostolic trip to Slovakia.
Without naming him, Francis was referring to the ultra-conservative American cardinal Raymond Burke, one of his fiercest opponents within the Catholic Church.
The latter had contracted Covid-19 in August and had to be hospitalized in the United States for a while.
The Pope clarified that within the Vatican
“everyone is vaccinated, except for a small group”
.
"We are studying how to help them,"
he added, during a press conference on board the plane.
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Vaccine or negative PCR test required to visit the Dubai World Expo
Visitors to the Dubai World Expo will need to be vaccinated or show a negative PCR test within 72 hours, organizers of the event said on Wednesday two weeks before its launch. Expo 2020, which was postponed for a year last year due to the Covid-19 pandemic, will be held from October 1 to March 31, with the Gulf city-state hoping to attract 20 million foreign tourists.
"Visitors aged 18 and over will be required to present a vaccination certificate or negative PCR test performed within 72 hours,"
organizers said in a statement.
Expo 2020 ticket holders that do not fit into these two categories will be able to get tested for free at various locations in Dubai, one of the seven principalities that make up the United Arab Emirates, they added.
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More than 4.64 million dead
The Covid-19 pandemic has killed at least 4,646,416 people around the world since the end of December 2019, according to a report established on Wednesday at 10:00 GMT by AFP from official sources.
The United States is the country with the most deaths (663,936), ahead of Brazil (587,797), India (443,497), Mexico (269,016) and Peru (198,840), according to official figures.
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.
