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Covid-19: 63 dead in French hospitals, 1,609 patients in intensive care

2021-09-24T04:41:39.648Z


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


Chinese vaccines partly recognized for the health pass, third dose for people over 65 in the United States, daily deaths in Russia again at their highest ...

Le Figaro

takes stock this Thursday, September 23 on the latest information linked to the Covid-19 pandemic.

To discover

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1,609 patients in critical care in French hospitals

The epidemic continues to ebb in France, where 8,237 patients are still hospitalized this Thursday - they were 8,414 Wednesday - including 301 since the day before.

1609 people are currently treated in critical care, including 68 who arrived in the last 24 hours, against 1656 the day before.

63 patients with Covid-19 have also died in hospital, bringing the toll to 89,527 hospital deaths since the start of the pandemic in France.

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The European regulator must decide on the third dose in early October

The European Union regulator announced Thursday that it would or would not give its approval in early October to a third dose of Pfizer / BioNTech vaccine against Covid-19 for the population over 16 years of age.

At the same time, the European Medicines Agency (EMA) must decide on the booster doses of Pfizer and Moderna vaccines for immunocompromised people, EMA vaccine strategy manager Marco Cavaleri told reporters.

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Third dose for those over 65 in the United States

The United States has authorized the injection of a third dose of Pfizer's anti-Covid vaccine from age 65 and for people at

"risk"

, the United States Medicines Agency announced.

The booster dose can be administered from six months after the second injection.

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Jean-Michel Blanquer evokes the end of wearing a mask in college in November

As of October 4, wearing a mask will no longer be compulsory in primary school in the departments where the incidence rate is less than 50. But what about secondary schools?

This Thursday, September 23 morning, on LCI, the Minister of National Education Jean-Michel Blanquer answered this question.

He raised the possibility of no longer making it compulsory to wear a mask in colleges this fall.

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“It would be the next step.

It's too early to say [when].

We do everything according to the health situation.

If it continued to improve in October or November, that would be something we could consider, ”

he said.

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Hidalgo asks Castex for more financial support for Paris

"Despite your commitments and our numerous exchanges, I can only note that these remain a dead letter and that the attention paid by the State to the difficulties encountered by the City remains below that granted to other communities"

, writes the PS mayor of Paris Anne Hidalgo who estimates at one billion euros - additional expenses and drop in revenue combined - the cost of the Covid-19 crisis for the capital.

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According to the entourage of the mayor contacted by AFP, the City asked Bercy for an endowment to support local investment (DSIL) of around 130 million euros, under the headings of the recovery and the thermal renovation, and only received a pledge of 80 million euros, an amount

"very disappointing"

for Anne Hidalgo.

Still according to those around him, the City has so far received

"less than 40 million"

under the recovery plan, including for the thermal renovation of social housing, while in 2016, its DSIL stood at 20 million d 'euros.

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Chinese vaccines partly recognized for the health pass

People vaccinated against Covid-19 abroad with Chinese vaccines will now be able to benefit from the health pass in France, on the condition, however, of receiving an additional dose of Pfizer or Moderna, the government has decided. These people will be able to receive their health pass

"7 days after the administration of a complementary dose of a messenger RNA vaccine"

(that is to say Pfizer or Moderna), according to a decree published Thursday in the Official Journal.

At this point, four anti-Covid vaccines are authorized in the EU by the European Medicines Agency (EMA) and the European Commission: those from Pfizer / BioNTech, Moderna, AstraZeneca and Janssen (Johnson & Johnson).

But at the global level, the WHO recognizes others: the Chinese vaccines Sinopharm and Sinovac, as well as versions of the AstraZeneca vaccine which are equivalent to it but are manufactured outside the European Union (such as the Indian Covishield vaccine).

The Russian vaccine Sputnik V is not yet recognized by the EU or the WHO.

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French woman sentenced for false health passes

A 19-year-old young woman, who worked at the largest vaccination center in Bordeaux, in southwestern France, was sentenced to 18 months in prison for having issued 24 false health passes for the benefit of relatives.

The Bordeaux Criminal Court which tried her also sentenced her to ineligibility for two years and to a five-year ban on public employment.

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Corrèze in turn lifts the obligation to wear a mask outdoors

The department of Corrèze will lift the obligation to wear the mask outdoors on Saturday, with a Covid-19 incidence rate well below the alert threshold, thus following in the footsteps of the Pyrénées-Atlantiques, Charente- Maritime and the Landes. Wearing a mask remains compulsory

"inside all shops, colleges, high schools, universities, nurseries, establishments for young children and collective reception of minors,"

the prefecture recalled in a statement on Thursday.

La Corrèze, a rural department, has not placed any restrictions on the blackout outdoors, while the other departments of Nouvelle-Aquitaine, more populated and touristy, have kept the obligation in high-density areas such as markets, flea markets or outside queues.

The incidence rate

"is 25.4 per 100,000 inhabitants and the vaccination rate is very high in the department"

, justified the prefecture, specifying that elementary schools would no longer wear the mask from October 4.

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Netherlands: 12-year-old boy authorized by justice to be vaccinated despite father's opposition

Dutch justice has authorized a 12-year-old child to be vaccinated against Covid-19, despite the objections of his vaccine-skeptical father, to be able to visit his grandmother at the end of his life, according to the judgment made public Thursday. The defense of the young boy's mother argued that a Covid-19 vaccination would reduce the risk of transmitting the coronavirus to his dying grandmother.

Children aged 12 to 17 can be vaccinated in the Netherlands, but with the consent of both parents. In this case, the parents of the young boy, whose identity has not been communicated, are divorced, and his mother has given her permission, unlike his father. Judge Bart Tromp of the district court of Groningen (north) on Tuesday authorized the young boy to be vaccinated given

"the interests at stake"

in this vaccination

"in particular the interests of this minor".

In his judgment, which was not made public until Thursday, he ordered the young boy to be vaccinated

"quickly"

because his interests were more important than a possible appeal from the father's lawyers.

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Daily deaths in Russia high again

Russia equalized its record for daily deaths from Covid-19 on Thursday, the authorities having failed for months to stem the contaminations, carried by the Delta variant, against a background of sluggish vaccination and the absence of restrictive measures.

According to government figures, 820 people have died from Covid-19 in the past 24 hours, a level equivalent to the all-time high of August 26, 2021. Daily contaminations are also on the rise, at 21,438.

Russia is the country in Europe most bereaved by the Covid-19 pandemic, and one of the most affected in the world.

Moscow admitted Wednesday it was facing a second outbreak, after that of the summer, due to the variant Delta, more contagious.

Contamination jumped 24% over a week, and hospitalizations by 15%.

The megalopolis has recorded 3,445 new infections and 54 deaths in the past 24 hours.

The second city of the country, Saint Petersburg, is not to be outdone with 1,698 contaminations and 53 deaths.

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No Nobel in Stockholm

For the second year in a row, the winners of the Nobel Prizes in science and literature will receive their awards in their countries of residence and not in Stockholm because of the Covid pandemic, the Nobel Foundation announced on Thursday.

For the Nobel Peace Prize, awarded to him in Oslo, the option of a presentation in the Norwegian capital

"remains open"

and a decision must be taken in mid-October.

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Vaccine compulsory for American athletes at the Winter Olympics

American athletes selected for the next Winter Olympics, which will take place in February 2022 in Beijing, will participate on the condition of being vaccinated against Covid-19, according to guidelines unveiled by the United States Olympic and Paralympic Committee. United (USOPC).

During the Tokyo Summer Olympics, the USOPC did not require its members to be vaccinated and around 100 of the 613 athletes defending the American colors were not.

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More than 4.7 million dead

The pandemic caused by the new coronavirus has killed at least 4,715,909 people worldwide since the end of December 2019, according to a report established by AFP from official sources Thursday at 10:00 GMT.

The United States is the country with the most deaths (681,185), ahead of Brazil (592,316), India (446,050), Mexico (273,391) and Russia (201,445).

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.

Source: lefigaro

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