The pandemic in full decline, the number of tests per week is approaching the pre-Omicron period, the use of partial activity on the rise in January...
Le Figaro
takes stock this Friday, February 25 on the latest information related to the Covid-19 pandemic.
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188 dead in 24 hours, 25,483 people hospitalized
188 people have died in the past 24 hours, according to Public Health France.
25,483 people are currently hospitalized (compared to 26,117 the day before), including 1,285 arrivals today.
2,546 patients are being treated in critical care - 111 of them entered this Friday.
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The pandemic is decreasing everywhere this week, except in Asia
The Covid-19 pandemic continued its sharp decline this week.
With 1.66 million contaminations recorded every day worldwide, the indicator has fallen sharply for the fourth consecutive week (-16% compared to the previous week), according to an AFP report stopped on Thursday.
Daily contaminations have been halved since their peak reached a month ago (3.37 million during the week of January 21 to 27).
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This week, only Asia saw its situation deteriorate, with 20% more contamination compared to the previous week.
The situation is clearly improving in all the other regions: -39% in the Middle East, -37% in the United States/Canada zone, -24% in Africa and in the Latin America/Caribbean zone, -20% in Europe and -12% in Oceania.
Hong Kong is the territory that recorded the biggest acceleration of the week (+331% compared to the previous week, 7,600 new daily cases).
Globally, the number of daily deaths continues to decline (-10%, 9348 deaths per day).
The United States has the highest number of daily deaths in absolute value, 1,905 per day this week, ahead of Brazil (784) and Russia (772).
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The use of partial activity up in January
The use of partial activity increased in January compared to the previous month, against a backdrop of restrictions aimed at curbing the spread of the Omicron variant, with 470,000 employees concerned, according to a Dares survey published on Friday.
This represents an increase of 17% compared to December (400,000 employees concerned), according to this monthly survey on activity and employment conditions during the health crisis carried out by the statistics department of the Ministry of Labor.
At the height of the Covid-19 crisis, in the spring of 2020, nearly 9 million employees were affected by partial unemployment.
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The number of tests per week is approaching the pre-Omicron period
It's not yet a return to normal, but the decline is spectacular.
According to the latest data from the Research, Studies, Evaluation and Statistics Department (Drees), published this Thursday, last week, 3.24 million RT-PCR and antigenic tests were validated by a healthcare professional.
A balance sheet down 29% compared to the previous week.
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EMA approves Moderna vaccine for children
The European Medicines Agency (EMA) has approved the use of Moderna's anti-Covid vaccine for children aged 6 and over, a serum which was previously authorized from the age of 12 in the 27 countries of the European Union.
The EMA has also given the green light to the booster dose of Pfizer-BioNTech's Covid vaccine, called Comirnaty, for children aged 12 and over.
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Canada authorizes homemade vaccine
Canada has announced that it has approved the anti-Covid vaccine from the Canadian biopharmaceutical company Medicago and the British laboratory GlaxoSmithKline (GSK), making it the first designed in the country.
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Morocco reopens its football stadiums after two years without an audience
The Moroccan government has announced the reopening of football stadiums to supporters, after two years of competition without an audience due to the coronavirus pandemic.
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More than 5.91 million deaths worldwide
The pandemic has officially killed at least 5.9 million people worldwide since the end of December 2019, according to a report compiled by AFP from official sources on Thursday.
In absolute terms, the United States is the country with the most deaths (944,755), ahead of Brazil (647,390), India (512,924) and Russia (348,578).
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 could be two to three times higher than that officially established.
