In France, the hospital situation stabilized on Sunday, but the Delta variant, more contagious, is still worrying: 31 proven cases have been detected in New Aquitaine and arouse the vigilance of the government.
On Europe 1, Bruno Le Maire was optimistic about the post-Covid recovery.
Spain reopens its doors today to all vaccinated tourists.
While vaccination is accelerating in France with the opening to over 12 years from June 15, the hospital situation stabilized on Sunday despite concerns around the Delta variant, more contagious, of which several cases were detected in New Aquitaine.
As the summer holidays approach, Spain reopens its doors on Monday to all vaccinated tourists.
On Europe 1, Bruno Le Maire was optimistic about the post-Covid recovery.
The Minister of the Economy, invited to Europe 1, for his part affirmed that there had been "no social breakage" in companies during the crisis linked to Covid-19.
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Spain reopens Monday to vaccinated tourists from around the world
For Bruno Le Maire, "there was no social breakage" in companies
Hospital pressure stabilizes, below 15,000 patients
31 cases of the delta variant were detected in the Landes
Spain reopens its beaches to vaccinated tourists
From Monday, the Spanish borders open to all vaccinated people from all over the world.
The second largest tourist destination in the world, the country is reopening its doors and its beaches to vaccinated tourists in the hope of reviving a key sector of its economy, devastated by the pandemic.
The downside is that the country is still considered at risk by the United Kingdom, which imposes a quarantine on return to its nationals, enough to dissuade them from coming to enjoy the Spanish sun, a "disappointment" for the Spanish Minister of Health.
Another relaxation intended to revive tourism, unvaccinated Europeans, who already had the right to come but had to present a negative PCR of less than 72 hours, will now be able to be satisfied with an antigen test, much cheaper.
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About fifty cases of the variant of Indian origin in the Landes
Twenty-nine additional cases of the Delta variant, identified for the first time in India in April, have been identified in the Landes since the announcement on Wednesday of the first two cases in a family in this department, said the prefecture and the regional agency. health in a press release.
To these 31 proven cases, the ARS adds "about twenty others" on the basis of an estimate because "the positive cases for Covid-19 did not all give rise to the use of the sequencing method allowing to 'identify the variant "Delta.
This fifty or so cases in total, proven or "estimated", can be "grouped within fifteen sources of contamination", especially family, explains the ARS, "subject to the results of investigations still underway to cross data and tracing the chains of contamination ".
"The Indian variant is 40% more transmissible, which is why we are tracking it in the most determined way possible, and I see that week after week we do not record a community broadcast of this variant, it There is no extension of the epidemic, on the other hand there are clusters ", explained Sunday, on BFMTV, the Minister of Health Olivier Véran.
The more transmissible Delta variant
The Delta variant, which threatens the lifting of the latest restrictions in the UK, is transmitted 40% more than the previously dominant Alpha variant in the UK, UK Health Minister Matt Hancock said on Sunday.
Despite an increase in the number of new cases of Covid-19 in recent days, exceeding 5,000 or even 6,000 cases recorded daily, the number of hospitalizations remains stable, added Matt Hancock.
The majority of hospitalizations concern patients who have not been vaccinated, he assured.
But the arrival of the Delta variant, first identified in April in India and now dominant in the United Kingdom, according to estimates, after a long winter confinement threatens the lifting of the last restrictions hoped for on June 21.
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The stable hospital situation in France
The number of patients in hospital and in intensive care units has remained stable over the past 24 hours, according to data released Sunday by Public Health France.
In total, 14,525 Covid-19 patients are currently hospitalized against 14,532 the day before, and 16,775 a week earlier, specifies the health agency.
In 24 hours, 154 new patients were admitted to hospitals in France.
The "critical care" services, which treat the most serious cases, received 52 new patients in 24 hours, bringing the total number of Covid patients in real life to 2,527 patients.
They were 2,525 the day before.
25 patients have died in hospital bringing the total death toll to at least 110,027 since the start of the epidemic in March 2020.
The Minister of the Economy "does not believe in a wave of bankruptcies"
Guest of the Grand Rendez-Vous Europe1-CNews-Les Echos on Sunday, the Minister of the Economy Bruno Le Maire was optimistic about the French economy three days before the new stage of progressive deconfinement.
He said he did not believe in "a wave of bankruptcies".
He also recalled that aid was put in place to help companies with less than 20 employees and large companies in "a sector in difficulty".
According to Bruno Le Maire, the government has avoided "social damage" with aid, sometimes even too much.
For him, the government's choice was to "massively protect" the players in the French economy.
Economist Eric Heyer, however, called for caution and qualified the optimism of Bruno Le Maire.
Vaccination open to adolescents on June 15
27,957,453 people received at least one injection (41.7% of the total population and 53.2% of the adult population), according to the latest report from the Ministry of Health on Sunday.
Some 12,265,999 people received two injections, or 18.3% of the total population and 23.4% of the adult population.
And a total of 13,709,004 people have had a complete vaccination cycle (some people, especially those who have had Covid, only receive one dose and some vaccines are single-dose).
Vaccination against Covid-19 will then be extended to adolescents from mid-June, President Emmanuel Macron announced on Wednesday. The Minister of Health Olivier Véran, clarified on TF1 Saturday that this vaccination "will not be in any case obligatory", will be "done on a voluntary basis and with the agreement of the parents". But she will "participate in the collective immunity movement" also to limit the closures of establishments to the next school year.
Israel, for its part, on Sunday extended the vaccination campaign to adolescents aged 12 to 16, despite a "possible link" between the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine and mild cases of myocarditis detected in young men.
About 55% of the Israeli population has been vaccinated with both doses, thanks to a massive vaccination campaign launched in late December after an agreement with pharmaceutical giant Pfizer.
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Half of the Japanese now in favor of the Tokyo Olympics this summer
The Japanese are still divided over the prospect of hosting the Olympics in Tokyo this summer, but now 50% are in favor of the event, as the local health crisis subsides, according to a poll by the Japanese daily Yomiuri published Monday.
48%, on the contrary, want them to be canceled.
Last month, in a similar opinion poll from Yomiuri, only 39% of those polled were in favor of the Olympics this summer, and 59% against.
The survey published on Monday, carried out by telephone from June 4 to 6 among 1,070 people in Japan, comes as the number of new Covid-19 infections is gradually decreasing in the country.
The organizers of the Tokyo Olympics have yet to make a decision this month on the number of spectators allowed, after having already given up in March to welcome audiences from abroad because of the pandemic
Morocco reopens its air borders from June 15
Morocco announced on Sunday the "gradual" reopening of air borders from June 15, after months of suspension with some fifty countries, due to the coronavirus pandemic.
Two lists of countries have been drawn up with different access rules: list A includes "all countries with positive indicators" including those of the European Union, while list B concerns 74 countries with "a spread of variants or the absence of precise statistics on the epidemiological situation ", among which India, Algeria, Argentina or South Africa.
More than 3.7 million dead
The pandemic has killed more than 3.7 million people worldwide since the end of December 2019, according to a report established by AFP from official sources on Sunday in the middle of the day.
After the United States (597,624 dead), the countries with the highest number of deaths are Brazil (473,404), India (346,759), Mexico (228,754) and Peru (186,073).
These figures, which are based on daily reports from national health authorities, are generally underestimated.
They exclude the upward revisions carried out a posteriori by certain statistical organizations.
By taking into account the excess mortality directly and indirectly linked to Covid-19, the WHO estimates that the real toll is "two to three times higher".