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Despite a slight improvement in the figures for the Covid-19 epidemic in France, the government is playing it safe and is working on an “adaptation of containment” on December 1, with many questions outstanding.
Emmanuel Macron will speak next week to say on which points the confinement will be relaxed.
This Thursday, the Minister of Health Olivier Véran will hold a press conference on the epidemic at 6 p.m.
In 24 hours, 427 new deaths were recorded at the hospital on Wednesday for a total death toll of at least 46,698.
The pressure is easing a little on the resuscitation services, even if they remain under great tension: 4,759 Covid-19 patients are in intensive care, including 361 new admissions on Wednesday.
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9:42 am: Japan on "maximum alert"
After having identified a record number of daily coronavirus infections, Japan is on "maximum alert" said Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga on Thursday, without, however, providing for new restrictive measures immediately.
More than 2,000 new positive Covid-19 cases were recorded in the country on Wednesday, a national record.
Tokyo also exceeded the threshold of 500 new daily cases on Thursday, according to local media, a second straight record for the country's capital after 493 cases detected the day before.
Although relatively low compared to other countries, these figures show a sharp increase in the pandemic in the Japanese archipelago, where tests are not carried out on a large scale.
9:35 am: More than 250,000 dead from Covid-19 in the United States
If you missed this overnight information, the threshold of 250,000 deaths from the coronavirus was crossed on Wednesday in the United States, and New York announced the closure of public schools on Thursday.
9:30 am: In Marseille, students dependent on food aid
The epidemic is also wreaking economic havoc.
Precariousness affects more and more students, with this new confinement.
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met some on the Saint-Jérôme campus of the Aix-Marseille faculty, where a food aid distribution was organized.
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9:20 am: No vaccine to manage the second wave
The vaccines will not arrive in time to fight the second wave of the Covid-19 pandemic, and many countries "will continue to face it without vaccines," warned the head of emergency on Wednesday. World Health Organization (WHO).
"I think it will be at least four to six months before there are sufficient levels of immunization anywhere," Michael Ryan said in a question-and-answer session on social media, noting that vaccines should not be seen as a “magic potion”.
The Director General of the World Health Organization (WHO), Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, welcomed the new developments on the vaccine front but warned against any "letting go".
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