LIVE - Coronavirus: Trump says vaccine could be ready in a month

Europe under pressure.

On Tuesday evening, the WHO warned that the Old Continent was at a turning point in the fight against the coronavirus and that States must take drastic measures to keep both the youngest and the oldest in social life.

But what agitates the world in the fight against the pandemic is the vaccine race between China and the United States of Donald Trump, which multiplies the optimistic statements on the matter and maintains the pressure on the health organizations of his country.

Follow the evolution of the situation live.

The information to remember:

• Trump announces a vaccine for in four weeks.

  China recalls the month of November

• Europe enters watershed moment, WHO says

• The situation continues to worsen in France, especially in universities

United States-China, the vaccine race

Who in China or the United States will manage to launch their vaccine first?

The two countries have embarked on a race and ostensibly display their optimism.

A senior Chinese official thus spoke of a provision to the general public for the month of November.

"The current progress is very satisfactory," epidemiologist Wu Guizhen, an official at the Center for Disease Control and Prevention, an agency of the Chinese Ministry of Health, told CCTV national television.

A few hours later, Donald Trump claimed that an American vaccine could be available in less than a month.

"We're very close to a vaccine," he said in a town hall question-and-answer session with Pennsylvania voters, broadcast on ABC News.

“We're a few weeks away from having it you know - it could be three weeks, four weeks,” he announced.

A few hours earlier, speaking on Fox News Tuesday morning, the US president had said that a vaccine could be available in "four weeks, it could be eight weeks."

Scientific experts have denounced the "unprecedented" pressure exerted by President Donald Trump, in the midst of the campaign for his re-election, on the major American public health institutions.

For months, incidents have been increasing within the United States Medicines Agency (FDA) and the Centers for Disease Prevention and Control (CDC), the federal agency on the front line to respond to the Covid pandemic. 19, two organizations that Donald Trump's lieutenants see as hotbeds of resistance against the president's desire to revive the economy.

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WHO alerts Europe

Europe is entering a decisive moment in the fight against Covid-19 with the start of the school year and the arrival of autumn, the World Health Organization has warned.

It is time to stop "chasing chimeras" and making tough decisions to protect the most vulnerable and keep young people in school, even if it means accepting inevitable sacrifices, said the director of emergency situations of the 'WHO Michael Ryan.

"Europe is entering a season where people will start to return to indoor spaces. The pressure for infection will increase," Michael Ryan said during a virtual press conference.

Compromises will have to be made to keep both the younger and the older in social life, he said.

"The only way is for adults to maintain a sufficient distance to promote a decrease in contagion."

“What is more important: the return of our children to classes or the opening of nightclubs and bars?” He said.

The situation continues to worsen in France, universities on the front line

Nearly 8,000 new cases of Covid-19 have been recorded in France in 24 hours, an order of magnitude comparable to recent days, but hospital and intensive care admissions continue to rise, according to official data released on Tuesday.

7,852 cases were confirmed between Monday and Tuesday, against 6,158 Monday evening, more than 7,000 Sunday and more than 10,000 Saturday, according to Public Health France.

In addition, 2,713 patients were hospitalized over the last 7 days, and 479 were admitted to intensive care where the most serious cases are treated.

But it is still the situation in the universities that concerns.

The Montpellier Faculty of Medicine suspended part of its classes on Tuesday, around sixty students having tested positive for Covid-19 after a student evening.

In Rennes, 43 cases of Covid-19 had been confirmed Monday among students in medicine, pharmacy and dentistry, also probably contaminated during parties.

In total, around ten higher education establishments are affected.

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More than 930,000 dead, tourism at its lowest

The pandemic caused by the new coronavirus has killed at least 930,180 people around the world since the end of December, according to a report established by AFP from official sources late Tuesday afternoon.

Nearly 29.4 million cases of contamination have been diagnosed.

The United States is the most bereaved country with 195,765 dead.

Next come Brazil (133,119), India (80,776), Mexico (71,049) and the United Kingdom (41,664).      

The fall in the number of international tourists due to the pandemic resulted in a loss of 460 billion dollars for the sector in the first half of the year, estimates the World Tourism Organization (UNWTO).

The cause is a 65% drop in the number of international tourists over the period, marked by border closures and restrictions for travelers.

A summit on the Covid-19 pandemic, with a physical presence, is planned in New York before the end of the year by the UN General Assembly, the new president of this body, Volkan Bozkir, announced on Tuesday.

During a press conference, this former Turkish minister indicated that this special session of the Assembly was scheduled for "the first week of November".