Half of Shanghai confined for four days, another Biden spokesperson with Covid, Israeli Prime Minister Bennett tested positive...
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takes stock this Monday, March 28 on the latest information related to the Covid-19 pandemic. 19.
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: as soon as lifted, the anti-Covid measures (almost) forgotten
151 dead in 24 hours, 21,072 hospitalized patients
The epidemic continues to rage in France, where 151 people have died in the past 24 hours, according to the daily report of Public Health France.
21,072 patients are currently hospitalized (against 20,606 on Sunday), including 1,694 who arrived on Monday.
1533 patients are treated in critical care units.
174 of them have been since the day before.
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Spain: no more quarantine for mild and asymptomatic cases
Spain has scrapped the quarantine requirement for mild cases of Covid-19 and will only track the seriously ill or vulnerable people, as part of a new strategy to treat the disease as endemic.
The country justified this shift by the very high immunity of the population and the current low incidence.
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As the government announced in January, its desire is to treat Covid-19 no longer as a pandemic, but as an endemic disease whose epidemiological monitoring will resemble that of the flu.
According to the Ministry of Health, this "
different strategy
" will focus efforts "
on people and environments at risk
", which "
implies accepting a certain level of transmission
" of Covid "
within vaccinated and young populations
" .
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In addition to lifting the obligation to isolate themselves for asymptomatic and mild cases and contact cases, the government is also ending systematic testing for all suspected cases or contact cases in order to limit them to people at risk (more than 60 years, immunocompromised or pregnant women), caregivers and severe cases.
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Half of Shanghai confined for four days
Containment in two stages: half of Shanghai is put under glass this Monday when the Chinese economic capital of 25 million inhabitants faces its worst outbreak of Covid-19 in two years.
Shanghainese living in the east of the city are confined until April 1 at 5 a.m. to their homes, with a ban on leaving them.
On this date, it will be the turn of the western part.
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Until then, Shanghai had sought to avoid total confinement, which would be very damaging to the economy, seeking instead to minimize disruption with a more targeted approach: 48-hour confinements of buildings or residential complexes.
The metropolis has become in recent days the epicenter of a new wave of contamination, linked to the Omicron variant, which began to accelerate in early March and is putting the Chinese zero Covid strategy to the test.
The Ministry of Health reported 3,500 new positive cases in Shanghai on Monday.
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Israeli Prime Minister Bennett tested positive after meeting with Blinken
Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett has tested positive for Covid-19, his office announced on Monday the day after a meeting in Jerusalem between Naftali Bennett and Secretary of State Antony Blinken who came to attend a meeting with his counterparts from Arab countries. .
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The Prime Minister is feeling well and will continue his schedule as planned from home
," his office said in a statement.
Arrived Saturday evening in Israel, Antony Blinken spoke on Sunday with Naftali Bennett before going to the Negev (southern Israel) to meet with the head of Israeli diplomacy Yair Lapid their counterparts from Arab countries having normalized their relations with the Hebrew state.
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Another Biden spokeswoman with Covid-19
Deputy White House spokeswoman Karine Jean-Pierre announced on Sunday that she had tested positive for Covid-19 after her trip to Europe with President Joe Biden, in which she took part because the spokeswoman in charge had herself- even tested positive.
Karine Jean-Pierre is the latest in a series of positive cases among people met by the American president.
She explained that a PCR test came back positive after returning to the United States on Sunday morning from a tour with Joe Biden in Brussels and Poland.
Last Tuesday, the day before Mr. Biden's departure, spokesperson Jen Psaki announced that she was positive for Covid.
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Burma: Aung San Suu Kyi in quarantine, case of Covid in her entourage
Aung San Suu Kyi, under house arrest for more than a year, was placed in quarantine after cases of Covid-19 were detected in her entourage, a source close to the former told AFP on Monday. Burmese leader.
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Some people around her have contracted Covid-19 (…) She is being kept in quarantine although she is not infected herself
,” said this source.
Targeted by a multitude of legal proceedings since her arrest, the 1991 Nobel Peace Prize winner has not appeared in court since Thursday, the same source added.
The ex-leader and her staff have been fully vaccinated against the coronavirus, according to those around her.
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