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Covid-19: the pandemic is accelerating again this week, driven by Asia

2022-03-11T16:58:27.400Z


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


Olivier Véran warns about a "

rebound

" in France, China is reconfiguring a city of nine million inhabitants, "

critical situation

" in Germany...

Le Figaro

takes stock this Friday, March 11 on the latest information related to the Covid-19 pandemic.

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Olivier Véran warns about "

a rebound

"

The Minister of Health, Olivier Véran, reported on Friday of a "

rebound

" in the Covid-19 epidemic, highlighting the need for fragile people to "

continue to protect themselves

".

"

We are currently seeing a rebound, in France, in the countries around us, that is to say that the Covid is no longer falling, it is even increasing

," said the minister during a trip to Isère.

"

Given the latest figures from yesterday, it's a 20% increase

," he said.

The number of new positive cases rose Thursday evening to 74,818, according to Public Health France, against 60,225 a week ago.

"

On the other hand, the hospital load continues to drop, but the pace of this decrease has started to slow down, so we are extremely vigilant

," continued Olivier Véran.

The critical care services, where the most seriously affected people are treated, received 1,928 patients on Thursday (including 121 who arrived in the last 24 hours), against 1,962 on Wednesday and 2,231 the previous Thursday.

Read alsoCovid-19: Olivier Véran warns about “a rebound”

The pandemic is accelerating again this week, driven by Asia

The Covid-19 pandemic stopped decreasing this week in the world, contaminations starting to rise again driven by the resurgence of cases in Asia.

With 1.59 million contaminations recorded every day worldwide, the indicator is on the rise again (+8% compared to the previous week) after five weeks of decline, according to an AFP report.

However, daily contaminations remain half as numerous as during the peak at the end of January (3.37 million daily cases).

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Asia and Oceania remain the two areas where the situation is deteriorating the most this week, with respectively 27% and 20% more contamination compared to the previous week.

On the other hand, the situation continues to improve markedly in the United States/Canada zone (-30%), in the Middle East (-27%) and in the Latin America/Caribbean zone (-12%).

Globally, the number of daily deaths continues to decline (-12%, 6,700 deaths per day).

The United States has the highest number of daily deaths in absolute value, 1,165 per day this week, ahead of Russia (700) and Brazil (501).

In proportion to the population, the territory having recorded the most deaths over the past week is Hong Kong (23.8 deaths per 100,000 inhabitants), far ahead of Lithuania (6.0) and Denmark (5.5) .

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China is reconfiguring

Faced with its worst epidemic outbreak in two years, China had to resolve on Friday to confine the large city of Changchun, in the northeast of the country.

In this city of nine million inhabitants, only one person per household is now allowed to go out, once every two days, to ensure supplies, said the town hall, which is preparing to screen the entire population.

This confinement is the largest announced in China since that of the metropolis of Xi'an (north) and its 13 million inhabitants at the end of last year.

China has also announced that it will introduce the use of rapid antigen tests for Covid-19 for the first time.

»SEE ALSO – China: Covid-19 cases at their highest in two years

Critical situation

” in Germany

Germany is in a "

critical

" health situation due to the increase in the number of Covid-19 cases, the Minister of Health warned on Friday, still betting on compulsory vaccination.

Germany, which plans to ease a number of restrictions from March 20, recorded more than 250,000 new Covid-19 cases on Friday and the seven-day incidence rate exceeded 1,400

. incidence are increasing again (...).

In many districts, the incidence is still above 2000, or even 2500

,” added Lothar Wieler, director of the Robert Koch health monitoring institute.

“The situation is objectively much worse than the general atmosphere (...) We cannot be satisfied with a situation where 200 to 250 people die every day.

»

Karl Lauterbach, German Minister of Health this Friday.

Valneva vaccine: first deliveries to Europeans in spring 2022

The Franco-Austrian laboratory Valneva plans to deliver the first doses of its Covid-19 vaccine to Europe in the second quarter of 2022, the company said.

This vaccine is “

currently the only inactivated and adjuvanted vaccine candidate against Covid-19 in clinical development in Europe

”, underlines Valneva.

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European Union: companies and airports call for an end to health restrictions

Do away with vaccination certificates, tests and even the mask to travel by plane in Europe?

The main airport and airline organizations asked for it in a joint statement on Friday, believing that collective immunity is sufficient to return to pre-crisis rules.

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Kenya removes requirement to wear face masks in public

The government of Kenya announced on Friday the end of the obligation to wear a mask in public places, as part of an easing of the restrictions linked to Covid-19 in force for two years.

This announcement comes as the rate of contamination with the coronavirus in this East African country has been less than 1% for a month, underlined the Minister of Health, Mutahi Kagwe.

Mandatory wearing of face masks in open public spaces is now lifted

,” Mutahi Kagwe said in a statement, while encouraging continued use of masks at indoor events and social distancing in public places. .

Read alsoEnd of wearing a mask at school: students will (finally) discover the faces of their teachers

More than 6 million deaths worldwide...

The pandemic has officially killed at least 6,026,306 people worldwide since the end of December 2019, out of more than 451 million confirmed contaminations, according to a report established by AFP.

The United States is the country with the most deaths (965,464), ahead of Brazil (654,086), India (515,714) and Russia (359,585).

But compared to the population, the countries where the epidemic has caused the most damage are Peru with 641 deaths per 100,000 inhabitants, Bulgaria (518) and Bosnia and Herzegovina (476).

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.

"SEE ALSO - "

There are reasons to believe

" at the end of the pandemic, says Vincent Bordenave

... but a study puts the number of deaths at 18 million

The Covid-19 pandemic would have caused more than 18 million deaths worldwide between the beginning of 2020 and the end of 2021, more than three times the official toll, according to a study published in the journal

The Lancet

.

While the official figure counts 5.94 million deaths worldwide between January 1, 2020 and December 31, 2021, various works have deemed it to be highly underestimated and have attempted to better assess the overall assessment of the pandemic.

Source: lefigaro

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