The coronavirus report in France published on Saturday shows 54,981 dead, with more cases detected but a decline in intensive care, while Emmanuel Macron has ruled out an upcoming reopening of nightclubs.
In some areas of the world, the pandemic is starting to accelerate again, especially in the United States.
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The coronavirus report in France published on Saturday shows 54,981 dead, or 214 more over the last 24 hours.
In some areas of the world, the pandemic is starting to accelerate again, especially in the United States.
For his part, Emmanuel Macron has ruled out an upcoming reopening of nightclubs.
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Information to remember:
54,981 dead in France, the reflux in intensive care continues
Emmanuel Macron ruled out a rapid reopening of nightclubs
Vaccination campaigns are being organized around the world
More than 1.5 million deaths and 65 million cases worldwide
More cases detected in France, decrease in intensive care
According to the latest figures from Public Health France, the country has recorded 216 deaths from Covid-19 in its hospitals over the last 24 hours, bringing to 54,981 people the number of people who have died since the start of the epidemic last winter, including 37,822 in hospital.
284 people died on Friday, 326 on Thursday and 213 a week ago.
Note that the number of registered deaths is often lower on weekends.
The number of new cases of contamination confirmed in the past 24 hours was 12,923, compared to 11,221 the day before.
Hospitals had 3,220 patients in intensive care or intensive care units, including 125 admissions in the past 24 hours.
These departments had 3,283 patients the day before and 3,765 seven days ago.
Macron rules out rapid reopening of nightclubs
Emmanuel Macron ruled out a rapid reopening of nightclubs, kept closed since the first confinement, during an exchange on Snapchat with young people broadcast on Saturday by Brut.
"We will do it as soon as possible, but as long as the virus is circulating a little intensely, it would be madness to do that. I tell you very sincerely", launched the Head of State to a young man who called out to him about the night world, according to him "falling into ruins".
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"I know the sacrifice we are asking of you and how hard it is," replied Emmanuel Macron, but "what we know about this virus is that it spreads a lot when we are in closed places, close to each other, and where we sing, we talk loudly, we eat, we make an effort, ... The nightclub, when we have said all that, it's not the best place . "
"It will last, I will not lie to you, a few more weeks, even a few months," he concludes in this exchange recorded on the sidelines of the interview-river Emmanuel Macron by Brut Friday.
Outbreak in the United States after Thanksgiving
The United States recorded Saturday, for the third day in a row, a record number of coronavirus infections in 24 hours with nearly 230,000 cases, according to the count from Johns Hopkins University.
The United States has been facing a dramatic rebound in the epidemic for several weeks, and health officials expected the new outbreak after many Americans traveled for Thanksgiving last week despite the calls to stay at home.
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Austria launched nationwide screening for coronavirus
Austria launched a very large campaign of massive Covid-19 testing on Friday.
The army has been requisitioned to carry out the operation across the country.
But this operation is criticized by the opposition on several points, in particular its cost, estimated at 67 million euros.
In Vienna, the largest concert hall in the capital was thus transformed on Friday into a huge test center.
Between 300 and 400 soldiers are mobilized to test "60,000 people in one day" announces at the microphone of Europe 1 this officer of the Austrian army who manages the largest screening center in the capital.
Vaccination campaigns are organized
The city of
Moscow
began on Saturday to vaccinate caregivers and teachers at risk of contracting Covid-19.
Sputnik V was inoculated on Saturday to social workers, medical personnel and teachers at seventy vaccine centers opened in the Russian capital.
This Russian vaccine is, however, still in the third and final phase of clinical trials with 40,000 volunteers.
The
United Kingdom
is also preparing to launch vaccination campaigns, and Queen Elizabeth II should be one of the first to receive the Pfize-BioNTech vaccine, which has just received the green light from the British authorities.
The 94-year-old sovereign and her husband Prince Philip, 99, will both be vaccinated on a priority basis because of their age and not under preferential treatment, the Mail on Sunday reported.
The country was joined on Friday by
Bahrain
, the second country in the world to grant such an authorization.
In
France, the
closer the vaccination approach - it should start in January - the less the French seem to want to be vaccinated: only half of those questioned in November intend to do so, against two thirds in July, according to figures from Public health France.
According to Brigitte Autran, professor emeritus of immunology at the Sorbonne University, we have, however, "short-term visibility, from 3 to 6 months of hindsight", she says on Europe 1. A time according to her sufficient to realize the potential side effects of the vaccine.
Finding the first Grail that will save humanity from a pandemic that has already claimed 1.5 million lives worldwide has become a planetary competition: 51 vaccine candidates are currently being tested on humans, thirteen being in the last phase of trials, according to the WHO.
Nearly 1,520,000 deaths in total
The new coronavirus pandemic has killed at least 1,519,213 people around the world since the end of December, according to a report established by AFP from official sources on Saturday at midday.
More than 65,865,820 cases have been officially diagnosed.
The United States is the most affected, with 281,121 deaths.
Brazil follows with 176,628 dead, India (139,700), Mexico (108,863) and the United Kingdom (60,617).