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The data provided in the last hours by the autonomous communities point to an upward trend in coronavirus infections, which has led nine of them to impose restrictions on schedules, capacity and nightlife.

Incidence 470 accumulated by Autonomous Communities.

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10.40

The world celebrated its second New Year overshadowed by the pandemic

The world celebrates the arrival of the year 2022 with festivities restricted by the covid-19, entering a third year of pandemic with an explosion of contaminations and timid signs of hope.

Experts hope that

.

The emergence of the particularly contagious omicron variant in November led to the first time exceeding one

, according to an Afp tally.

Officially, more than 5.4 million people have died since the virus was first identified in China in December 2019.

Britain

,

and even

, long protected from the pandemic, are

.

And

announced on Thursday that

in its territory.

However, in his closing message, President Emmanuel

", wishing that

From Seoul to Mexico City to San Francisco, many festivities were canceled as of 2021 or severely restricted.

In Paris, where the traditional New Year's Eve fireworks show was canceled, thousands of people, far fewer than before the pandemic, strolled through the Champs Elysees, where the

, again required.

"

, so it's better here. I'll stay until midnight," explains Koen, a 22-year-old Dutch tourist who went to Paris with his girlfriend.

In the heart of Madrid, the traditional party in front of Puerta del Sol brought together some 7,000 people to swallow grapes to the sound of twelve chimes at midnight.

In

, a city that boasts of being the "New Year's Capital of the World,"

at the harbor to witness the traditional fireworks display.

In

, the second most affected country by the pandemic after the United States, Rio de Janeiro returned to Copacabana beach to receive 2022 although with less public due to bad weather and restrictions due to the pandemic.

In

, President Vladimir Putin mentioned the covid epidemic in a televised message without citing the figure of more than 600,000 deaths established the previous day by the national statistical agency - double that reported by the government -

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10.27

Graphic summary of the second year of the pandemic (I): 2021, the year of the vaccine

The time has come for the revalidation of the second year of the pandemic and if there is something clear, and a reason for pride, it is that Spain has obtained a very good grade in the subject of the vaccine.

We review the aspects that have made our campaign a success.

Here the complete information

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10.12

The German virologist of reference: "South Africa is heading towards an endemic situation"

The reference virologist and adviser to the German government, Christian Drosten, has indicated that looking towards South Africa

, which is settling there", although he warned that Germany "is still quite far away. "to be in the same place, reports Efe.

Health Minister Karl Lauterbach said he shared Drosten's opinion about being in the same situation as South Africa in the future, "but it is only a possibility, it is not a certainty," he added.

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10.09

Germany starts the year with upward incidence and "light at the end of the tunnel"

Germany begins the year with the incidence on the rise for the third day in a row and incomplete data due to public holidays, but with "light at the end of the tunnel", according to Health Minister Karl Lauterbach.

Thus, the cumulative incidence rose in Germany to 220.3 new infections per 100,000 inhabitants in seven days.

compared to 214.9 yesterday, 242.9 a week ago and 442.9 a month ago, and the peak of 452.4 registered on November 29, the maximum in the entire pandemic.

The health authorities reported

and 184 deaths with or from covid-19, compared to 22,214 and 157 a week ago, while the number of active cases is around 646,400, according to the data Efe of the Robert Koch Institute (RKI ) of virology updated last morning.

According to the RKI report on Thursday, the cumulative rate of admissions in seven days stood at 3.15 per 100,000 inhabitants and the occupancy in the ucis of patients with covid-19 was 19.0% of the beds available in the units of critics.

Until the last day of the year, 74.2% of the population (61.7 million people) had been vaccinated,

, while 38.7% ( 32.2 million) had already received a booster dose.

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09.45

Catalonia is experiencing a quiet New Year's Eve, with empty streets and parties at home

Catalonia has had a quiet New Year's Eve, with small-format celebrations at home and empty streets starting at 1 in the morning due to the night curfew, although

, without notable incidents.

For the second time, Catalonia has changed the year with restrictions due to the covid, among which the curfew from 1 to 6 in the morning stands out for the vast majority of the population, the limitation of meetings to 10 people and leisure night closed.

With these limitations, the Catalans have chosen to welcome 2022 with small parties at home, or to a lesser extent in restaurants, while those who have taken to the streets to celebrate the new year have abandoned them at 1 in the morning , reports Efe.

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09.30

Immune response to seasonal coronaviruses may offer protection against Covid-19

A research group led by Shin-ichiro Fujii of the RIKEN Center for Integrative Medical Sciences in Japan has found that people with a certain type of human leukocyte antigens (HLA) may be able to mount

, thanks to T cells responding to a part of the spike protein of the virus that is also present in seasonal coronaviruses that cause the common cold.

This work, published in the scientific journal

, could help explain the different responses between populations, and could potentially be used as a way to develop a new type of vaccine against the disease, reports Europa Press.

Until now, most researchers have focused on the antibody response to the virus, which prevents the initial infection.

However, once the virus infects the cells, to eliminate the viruses quickly, the effector lymphocytes (NK cells or memory T cells) become essential.

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