Record of daily deaths in hospital, 108,481 contaminated and end of the "acute phase of the pandemic" ...
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Daily death record
The Covid has claimed 393 people in 24 hours, for a total of 129,022 deaths since the start of the pandemic in the spring of 2020. This is the highest number of daily deaths recorded in the last wave of contamination, which affects France. since November.
The previous highest figure was 298 deaths over 24 hours a week ago.
108,481 people tested positive in 24 hours, according to data published Monday by Public Health France.
On average over seven days, this indicator stands at 340,861 cases, up 22% in one week.
France is currently the country in Europe, excluding microstates, with the highest incidence, 3,733 cases per 100,000 inhabitants.
The number of hospitalized patients, 29,748, increased slightly from Sunday (28,838).
The figure for seven-day admissions is also up with 15,932 hospital admissions in one week, against 15,376 on Sunday.
End of the “
acute phase of the pandemic
” in 2022
It is possible to end the acute phase of the pandemic this year, says WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, even though Covid-19 causes one death worldwide every 12 seconds.
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However, "
it is dangerous to assume that (the highly contagious variant) Omicron will be the last variant or to talk about endgame
", as conditions are "
ideal
" currently in the world for other variants to emerge, including more transmissible and more virulent variants.
Among children, almost “
irreversible
”
losses
in education
School closures due to the Covid-19 pandemic have caused almost "
irreversible
"
losses
in education among children around the world, UNICEF said on Monday.
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More than 616 million students remain affected by total or partial school closures, the UN agency said.
More than 40 monks dead from Covid in Mount Athos for two years
More than forty monks on Mount Athos have died since the start of the pandemic two years ago, the administration of this Orthodox monastic community, located in northern Greece, told AFP on Monday.
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High place of Orthodoxy, Mount Athos located 460km from Athens, brings together about twenty monasteries where Greek monks live but also monks from other Orthodox countries of Eastern Europe, Russians, Serbs , Romanian or Bulgarian.
Boris Johnson participated in a party for his birthday in full confinement
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson celebrated his birthday in the company of relatives in full confinement despite the rules in force, the ITV television channel said on Monday, overwhelming the Conservative leader already criticized for parties in Downing Street.
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According to ITV, Boris Johnson participated in this party organized by his wife Carrie on June 19, 2020 in the afternoon, during the first confinement, when such gatherings were then prohibited.
Olympic Games: 72 cases of Covid among the participants
Some 72 participants have tested positive for coronavirus since arriving in China, according to organizers of the Olympic Games which begin in ten days.
Nearly 5.6 million dead
The Covid-19 pandemic has killed at least 5,593,747 people worldwide since the end of December 2019, according to a report established Monday by AFP from official sources.
The countries that have recorded the most deaths since January 2020 are the United States with 868,318 deaths, Brazil (623,351), India (489,848), and Russia (326,112).