New restriction measures in France, new variant discovered in South Africa, Morocco is suspending flights to and from France ...
Le Figaro
takes stock this Thursday, November 25 on the latest information related to the Covid pandemic -19.
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New measures in France
To cope with the epidemic rebound, France announced Thursday a strengthening of measures for vaccination and the health pass but at this stage is not considering "
no containment or curfew".
The booster dose of the anti-Covid vaccine, which is now only available to over 65s, will be open to all adults from Saturday.
As of January 15, 2022, in the absence of a reminder, the health pass will be invalid seven months after the last injection.
As for the period of validity of negative tests, opening right to the pass, it will be reduced to 24 hours (instead of 72 hours).
Wearing a mask is, moreover, once again compulsory
“everywhere indoors”.
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Regarding schools, the Minister of National Education Jean-Michel Blanquer announced Thursday that from next week, there will be no more class closures in primary schools from the first case of Covid detected in a student.
"From next week, when a student tests positive, all the students in the class are tested in turn and only the classmates who test positive stay at home,"
he said, noting that
"8,500 schools (were ) closed yesterday (Wednesday), against 4,100 on November 19 ”.
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New variant in South Africa
A new variant of Covid-19, with a high number of mutations, has been detected in South Africa, the African country officially the most affected by the pandemic and which is experiencing a new increase in contamination, scientists announced Thursday. The B.1.1.529 variant shows an
"extremely high" number
of mutations and
"we can see that it has a potential for very rapid spread
,
"
virologist Tulio de Oliveira said at an online press conference overseen by the Ministry of Health. His team at the KRISP research institute, backed by the University of Kwazulu-Natal, had already discovered the highly contagious Beta variant last year.
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More than 100,000 dead in Germany, record of infections in 24 hours
Germany is facing its most violent wave of contamination by the coronavirus, putting in difficulty the new government which is about to take office. More than 100,000 people, exactly 100,119, have died from Covid-19 in Germany since the start of the pandemic, the health authority (RKI) announced on Thursday, which has recorded 351 deaths in the last 24 hours.
"It is a very sad day
,
"
commented outgoing Chancellor Angela Merkel. In one day, the RKI also identified 75,961 new contaminations, a new high, at a time when the largest European economy fears a saturation of hospitals. The seven-day incidence also reached a record high at 419.7. In Saxony, in the former GDR, it exceeded the threshold of 1000.
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Morocco suspends flights to and from France
Morocco has decided to suspend regular flights to and from France due to the resumption of the Covid-19 pandemic, we learned Thursday from the Moroccan Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
“This decision will come into force from November 26, 2021 at 11.59pm, until further notice,”
said an official statement relayed by the MAP press agency.
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Pfizer vaccine approved for children
Pfizer's vaccine against Covid-19 has been approved for children aged 5 to 11 by the European medicines regulator, the European Medicines Agency (EMA) announced on Thursday, paving the way for vaccination within this age group in the European Union.
Outside of mainland Europe, Pfizer's vaccine has already been approved for children aged 5 to 11 in some countries, including the United States, Israel and Canada.
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EU recommends booster dose no later than nine months after vaccination
The European Commission recommended Thursday to the 27 EU countries to administer an anti-Covid booster dose no later than nine months after a first complete vaccination, in order to strengthen the validity of the European health pass.
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More than 5.17 million dead
The pandemic caused by the coronavirus has killed at least 5,173,915 worldwide since the end of 2019, according to a report established by AFP from official sources Thursday at 11:00 GMT.
The United States is the most bereaved country, with 775,397 deaths, ahead of Brazil (613,339), India (466,980) and Mexico (293,186).
In Europe, the Covid-19 has caused the death of more than 1.5 million people, according to the AFP count.
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Currently, the worst-affected country is Russia, which records nearly 30% of the continent's daily new deaths, with an average of 1,246 deaths per day.
According to official figures that the authorities themselves consider largely underestimated, the country is also the most bereaved with a total of 269,057 deaths.
The World Health Organization (WHO) estimates, taking into account the excess mortality directly and indirectly linked to Covid-19, that the toll of the pandemic in the world could be two to three times higher than that calculated from official figures.
