The third stage of deconfinement came into force on Wednesday in France: restaurants and cafes were able to reopen indoors and the curfew was postponed to 11 p.m.
Prime Minister Jean Castex, contact case of his wife, will be placed in solitary confinement for seven days.
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France is falling apart.
A new wave of social life resumed on Wednesday, with the reopening of indoor swimming pools, gyms, bars and restaurants, and the extension of the curfew from 9 p.m. to 11 p.m.
Teleworking is relaxed, as are the rules in canteens.
Prime Minister Jean Castex, on the other hand, is in contact with his wife who tested positive for Covid-19.
He will be placed in solitary confinement for seven days in solitary confinement.
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Jean Castex, contact case and placed in solitary confinement
France is falling apart
United States announces donation of 500 million vaccine to poor countries
Jean Castex, contact case
Contact case of his wife tested positive for Covid-19, Prime Minister Jean Castex will be placed in solitary confinement for seven days, Matignon announced on Wednesday.
"The Prime Minister, who had received his first injection of Astra Zeneca vaccine on March 19, tested negative this evening," said the services of the Prime Minister who met many people on Wednesday on the occasion of the new lifting of restrictions .
"However, as a contact case, he is in solitary confinement for seven days, in accordance with health rules," the same source added.
Green health indicators ...
The number of people hospitalized due to Covid-19 continued to decline on Wednesday, the pressure being at its lowest since the end of October, according to data published by Public Health France. The health agency listed 13,526 people hospitalized in total, a decline of 47% in one month (they were then 25,800). This figure had not fallen to this level since October 21. Likewise, critical care wards, which treat the most serious cases, had 2,326 patients on Wednesday, half as many as a month ago. This figure is at the lowest since October 22.
With an incidence rate of 72 cases per 100,000 inhabitants across the country, the epidemic is receding faster than scientists hoped, even if there are still 6,600 new cases per day on average over the last week.
However, according to modelers' projections, France should drop back below the fateful bar of 5,000 daily infections before the end of the week.
At the same time, the vaccination campaign is continuing.
According to the Directorate General of Health, 29,056,963 people received a first injection, and 13,082,882 a second.
This represents respectively 55.3% and 24.9% of the adult population.
... While France has started a new phase of deconfinement
The third stage of deconfinement came into effect on Wednesday, with the reopening of all indoor cafes and restaurants, sports halls, trade fairs and exhibition fairs.
The instructions for teleworking have also been relaxed and the curfew is now postponed to 11 p.m.
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The gauge of cinemas, museums, theaters goes up to 65% of the initial capacity.
Same attendance limits and gauge for festivals authorized only in a seated and open-air configuration.
Sports centers and gymnasiums, as well as bowling alleys and game rooms, are now subject to a 50% gauge.
We explain all the details of the new rules in this article.
United States donate
President Joe Biden is due to announce Thursday the donation by the United States of 500 million vaccines to poor countries, a strong gesture intended to demonstrate his country's commitment to the global fight against the coronavirus. The Democratic president arrived in the United Kingdom on Wednesday evening, the initial stage of his first trip abroad since taking office, had said before leaving that he was preparing to unveil a global vaccine strategy. He "will speak on this subject tomorrow (Thursday) and can talk about the additional measures the United States is taking to help give more doses to poor countries," the security adviser said on board Air Force One. National Jake Sullivan.
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, the first 200 million doses will be distributed this year, and the other 300 million next year.
Child labor on the rise due to pandemic
Millions of children at risk of being pressured into work due to Covid-19 pandemic, as world saw first increase in child labor in two decades, UN warned Thursday. A joint report by the International Labor Organization (ILO) and UNICEF, the UN agency in charge of child welfare, estimates that at the start of 2020, 160 million children were forced to work, i.e. 8.4 million more in four years.
If current projections of rising global poverty materialize, nine million more children will be forced into work by the end of next year, according to the report.
But statistical models show that number could be more than five times higher, warned Claudia Cappa, a Unicef statistician and co-author of the report.
"If social protections fall from their current level, due to austerity measures and other factors, the number of children forced to work could jump by 46 million" by the end of 2022, he said. -she explained to AFP.
Football under surveillance
Even before its kickoff on Friday, the European football tournament is experiencing its first health alert with at least four positive cases for Covid-19 among the Spaniards and Swedes, opponents next Monday, raising fears of the outbreak of epidemic outbreaks.
In South America Five days before the kick-off of the Copa América in Brazil, the suspense remains unresolved: the Supreme Court must decide on Thursday of its behavior, while the players of the Seleçao declared themselves Tuesday "against" the tournament , even if they did not plan to boycott it.
More than 3.75 million dead
The pandemic has killed more than 3.75 million people worldwide since the end of December 2019, according to a report established by AFP from official sources on Wednesday. After the United States, which has the highest number of deaths (598,762), the most bereaved countries are Brazil (479,515), India (353,528), Mexico (229,100) and Peru (187,157). Peru is the one that deplores the highest number of deaths in relation to its population.