LIVE - Coronavirus: indicators continue to improve in France

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The latest report in France reports 48,265 deaths from Covid-19, as well as a drop in resuscitation and hospitalizations.

The President of the Republic will deliver a televised address on Tuesday, in which he will detail adaptations to the containment rules and could announce the reopening of shops on December 1.

Indicators are improving in France and according to Public Health France, the peak of the second wave could be crossed.

On the other hand, the pandemic is accelerating in Canada and the United States, which are adopting new health measures.

Follow the evolution of the situation live. 

Information to remember

• 48,265 dead in France, further decline in resuscitation and hospitalizations

• Emmanuel Macron will address the French on Tuesday evening at 8 p.m. in a televised address 

• More than 56 million cases have been recorded worldwide

Resuscitation and hospitalizations down in France

France now has 48,265 deaths from the coronavirus, or 1,138 more in the last 24 hours, according to data published on Friday on the government site.

Resuscitations are down with 4,582 serious cases, or 71 less since the last score.

Another notable drop is that of hospitalizations.

There are now 31,906, 439 less than Thursday evening. 

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According to the latest figures, 2,109,170 people have been infected in France since the start of the pandemic.

This represents 22,882 additional cases of contamination in the past 24 hours, against nearly 43,000 last Thursday.

"The indicators are improving, the epidemic dynamic has reduced (...). But the health pressure remains extremely high in our country and our hospitals are still under a very heavy burden in terms of patients", insisted the Minister of Health, Olivier Véran. 

Emmanuel Macron will speak to the French on Tuesday evening 

Emmanuel Macron will address the French on Tuesday at 8 p.m. to announce an adaptation of the rules of containment in the face of the Covid-19 epidemic, the Elysee announced on Friday.

This televised address will take place a week before the deadline of December 1, set by the Head of State when he announced the national reconfinement on October 28.

The Head of State should announce a reduction in the measures, for a "progressive" deconfinement.

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France is still "far from deconfinement", government spokesman Gabriel Attal warned on Wednesday.

Prime Minister Jean Castex is meeting the leaders of parties and political groups this Friday afternoon, then organizing a meeting with the social partners next week.

The peak of the second wave probably crossed

The peak of the second wave of the Covid-19 epidemic in France has probably been crossed, said the health agency Public Health France on Friday, which however calls for maintaining "preventive measures".

"Even if the indicators remain at high levels, their observation suggests that the epidemic peak of the second wave has been crossed," the health agency said in a statement.

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According to Public Health France, "the current results show a clear reduction in all indicators, more marked in the first metropolises placed under curfew".

The health agency believes that these measures had "a direct effect": it is indeed what seems to prove "the temporality between the application of the first curfew and the reversal of the trend ten days more late ".

Small shops and the SNCF should be operational to anticipate the holidays

Jean Castex estimated Friday that "we are on the right track" in terms of improving health indicators to consider reopening shops "around December 1".

The Prime Minister, traveling to Crozon, in Finistère, recalled the two conditions for this reopening: improvement of health indicators, and "we are on the right track", and adapted protocols.

"If we continue our efforts, indeed, it will allow you to reopen (...) we hope, around December 1, that is to say as soon as possible", he said during 'a discussion with a shopkeeper.

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The pandemic is decelerating in Europe ...

Europe has remained the epicenter of the Covid-19 epidemic for the past seven days, despite a drop in new contaminations.

With 264,100 new daily cases, the Old Continent is the region with the most new infections, far ahead of the United States / Canada (172,200 per day).

But new cases are ebbing (-7%) in a Europe where many countries are confined or subject to curfews. 

The strongest decrease is observed in Nepal (- 41%, 1,500 new cases per day).

The Czech Republic (-38%, 5,100), France (-37%, 26,800), Belgium (-36%, 4,300) and Mexico (-35%, 4,000) follow.

The Czech Republic, France and Belgium have imposed severe restrictions in recent weeks.

... But is accelerating in North America

Canada is experiencing a "meteoric rise in cases" of coronavirus and Canadians must recover quickly, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau warned on Friday hours after the publication of new alarmist projections by health authorities.

Canada's largest city, Toronto, and much of its suburbs will be placed in "lockdown" from Monday due to the worsening Covid-19 epidemic, the Prime Minister of the United States said on Friday. Ontario.

In the United States, the epidemic is in "exponential" phase, with more than 197,000 new cases and 1,800 deaths over 24 hours Friday.

The day before, the country had deplored more than 2,200 deaths in one day, a threshold that had not been reached for months.

Most of California will be placed under a nighttime curfew for a month, as New York City has closed its schools.

Americans have been urged to refrain from travel for the big Thanksgiving family feast next Thursday. 

56 million cases worldwide, 1.36 million deaths

More than 56,872,830 cases, causing 1,360,914 deaths, have been officially detected around the world since the start of the pandemic, according to a report drawn up by AFP on Friday.

After the United States, which has 252,555 dead, the countries most affected are Brazil (168,061), India (131,578), Mexico, which has become the fourth country to exceed 100,000 deaths (100,104), and the United Kingdom (53.775).