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While the coronavirus pandemic continues to spread, four judicial inquiries have been opened on the management of the crisis by the Paris prosecutor's office.

In France, on Tuesday there were 42,207 deaths from the coronavirus and 4,736 patients in intensive care.

Prime Minister Jean Castex will hold a press conference on Thursday at 6 p.m.

While Europe has once again become the epicenter of the pandemic in recent weeks with 12.6 million confirmed cases, the United States again broke its daily record for coronavirus infections on Tuesday.

More than 50 million cases have been detected on the planet.

Follow the evolution of the situation live. 

Information to remember 

• France has recorded a total of 42,207 deaths since the start of the epidemic

• Four judicial inquiries were opened on the management of the crisis

• Pfizer announces vaccine 90% effective, partial results show 

• Over 50 million cases have been detected worldwide

42,207 dead in France, the epidemic continues to progress

472 Covid-19 patients died in hospital between Monday and Tuesday, while the same figure was recorded for entries into intensive care, according to data released Tuesday by Public Health France.

France therefore has 42,207 deaths from the coronavirus.

Nevertheless, the mortality figures in nursing homes and nursing homes were not available.

On Monday, France had recorded the highest daily toll since the start of the 2nd epidemic wave with 551 deaths in 24 hours.

The record of deaths recorded in 24 hours in hospital during the first wave of the epidemic was crossed on April 6, with 613 deaths.

"The peak of the epidemic is in front of us, the second wave is still progressing," the Director General of Health, Professor Jérôme Salomon, warned on Monday.

In intensive care units, admissions are also on the rise with 472 more in 24 hours, for a total of 4,736 patients affected by Covid-19 in these services, out of a total capacity and all pathologies combined already increased from 5,000 to 6,400 beds and which should soon increase to 7,500. 

31,477 Covid patients are currently hospitalized, with more than 3,168 in 24 hours, approaching the peak recorded on April 14, with 32,292 hospitalizations

Crisis management: four open judicial inquiries 

Four judicial inquiries were opened on Tuesday on the criticized management of the Covid-19 crisis, as the Paris prosecutor's office announced on Tuesday in a press release.

Five months after opening a vast preliminary investigation, the Public Health department of the Paris prosecutor's office decided to transmit its investigations to investigating judges in four separate judicial information. 

Opened against X for "voluntary abstention from fighting a disaster", "endangering the life of others" or even "unintentional homicides and injuries", this judicial information "includes 253 of the 328 complaints involving decision-makers and public structures national "sent to the Paris prosecutor's office since March 24. 

These complaints sometimes targeted officials of the administration, in particular Jérôme Salomon, on the front line of the media on the epidemic, or even Public Health France.

This also covers, among others, the prison administration and the Ministry of Labor.

Castex plans a press conference on Thursday 

The Prime Minister will hold a press conference Thursday at 6 p.m. in order to provide a weekly update on the evolution of the epidemic situation and the containment, announced Tuesday Matignon.

According to corroborating sources within the majority, however, it will be "too early to take decisions" in order to relax the restrictions, despite calls from, in particular, small traders.

Always from corroborating sources, this press point, which has become weekly but sometimes animated by the Minister of Health Olivier Véran, will be preceded, in the morning, by a Defense Council at the Elysee Palace dedicated to the Covid-19.

Darmanin wants to strengthen controls 

According to information from Europe 1, the Minister of the Interior Gérald Darmanin sent a telegram to all the prefects on November 9 to ask for a "strengthening of the containment control actions", and insists on the need for sanctions against people who do not respect confinement.

Because for several days, the police officers and the gendarmes note a relaxation, particularly in the big cities. 

The Minister of the Interior wants to be clear in his instructions addressed to the prefects: "I ask you to be particularly firm in enforcing, on the ground [...] private gatherings, gatherings on public roads and the closing of establishments open to the public , but also individual trips not falling within the scope of authorized exceptions ".

And in large cities, the instruction is to carry out more checks in parks and gardens.

More details in this article. 

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A vaccine with "encouraging" tests ...

The vaccine developed by Pfizer and Biontech is "90% effective," the two laboratories said on Monday (details in our article here), after the first interim analysis of their phase 3 trial, the last before an application for approval .

This "vaccine efficacy" was measured by comparing the number of participants infected with the novel coronavirus in the group that received the vaccine and in that on placebo, "seven days after the second dose" and 28 days after the first, have- they explained in a joint statement.

Shortly after the release of the press release from the two laboratories, the Director General of the World Health Organization (WHO), Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, found the announcement "encouraging". 

... but still obstacles to overcome 

"We must remain cautious on a number of things, but it is great news, these laboratories give a reason to hope", enthuses Christian Bréchot, doctor, virologist and president of the Global Virus Network, Tuesday on Europe 1 . "They obtained absolutely remarkable results. But they are intermediate," he nuances.

Several points remain to be clarified, underlines the virologist.

For example, it is difficult to determine the duration of immunity allowed by this vaccine, as well as the side effects that it could cause.

According to laboratory projections, around 1.3 billion doses could be produced within a year.

A considerable number ... But far from being sufficient to vaccinate all the inhabitants of the planet.

"Priority will be given to people at risk, that is to say to nursing staff and to people with frailty. Those who are elderly or who have a health history, for example," explains Christian Bréchot.

Find his full interview here.

Funding collapse to poor countries

Poor countries suffered in 2020 a decline of 700 billion dollars in their external private financing due to the Covid-19 pandemic, which "wipes out years of progress in development", estimates the OECD in a published report Wednesday.

While developed countries spend "billions of dollars" to get by, poor countries are faced with a "risk of collapse in external private funding", warns the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development.

Nearly 51 million cases and over 1.26 million deaths worldwide

A total of 50,907,770 cases, including 1,263,890 deaths, have been officially detected worldwide since the start of the pandemic, according to a report updated Tuesday noon by AFP.

The United States broke its daily record for coronavirus infections on Tuesday, with 201,961 cases in 24 hours, according to data compiled by Johns Hopkins University.

It only took ten days for the country, the most bereaved in the world by Covid-19, to go from 9 to 10 million confirmed cases after recording several records for new daily infections last week.

After the United States, the countries most affected are Brazil with 162,628 dead, India with 127,059 dead, Mexico with 95,255 dead, and the United Kingdom with 49,063 dead.

Russia also recorded a new record of daily Covid-19 contamination on Monday with nearly 22,000 cases, Moscow notably exceeding the peak in May for the first time.

Russian authorities have so far ruled out any further large-scale containment, believing that restrictive measures such as those imposed in the spring would be too damaging to the economy.