Headlines: California expects explosion in Covid-19 cases

A nurse prepares to treat a patient in the intensive care unit at Saint Joseph's Medical Center in Burbank, California, November 19, 2020. REUTERS - LUCY NICHOLSON

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The situation is becoming very complicated in some states, especially California, details the

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Faced with the increase in the number of cases and the risk of saturation of resuscitation services by mid-December, local authorities could announce new restrictive measures this week, warns the newspaper.

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Comments also echoed by Governor Gavin Newsom, the daily said.

The urgency is therefore required in the United States, hence the speeding up of certain laboratories to obtain marketing authorization for their vaccine.

Moderna requests marketing authorization for its vaccine in the USA

The company hopes to obtain this authorization from the US administration shortly after mid-December, that is to say just after Pfizer, details

.

Moderna's vaccine is arousing some enthusiasm in the scientific community, such as Dr. Robert Wachter, chairman of the department of medicine at the University of California at San Francisco.

The results presented by the laboratory are "astounding", he believes in the pages of the daily before adding that he was particularly impressed by the success of the vaccine in the prevention of serious diseases.

One of Donald Trump's main advisers on the pandemic resigns

This is Doctor Scott Atlas, a controversial figure, according to the

since he was the one who advocated for Americans to continue working and schools to remain open.

For months he never ceased to vilify those who thought differently.

A resignation that was long awaited by the scientific community details Stanford faculty in the pages of the

.

This departure " 

 " said this Stanford faculty on Monday, which had not hesitated to condemn the work of Scott Atlas last September.

Resumption of deportations of failed refugee claimants in Canada

Information that made the front page of

Tuesday.

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Operations that resumed on November 30, that is to say yesterday.

A decision motivated by the gradual reopening of countries, the establishment of airline strategies to minimize the risks of spread and the emergence of various vaccine scenarios specifies the Canadian authorities.

Measures that also concern those called "guardian angels", essential workers in times of pandemic, which raises an outcry in the ranks of NGOs and human rights organizations.

Deforestation is on the rise in Brazil

Official data on deforestation in Brazil was released on Monday.

Figures that mark a new record in this area.

According to the National Institute for Space Research, deforestation increased by 9.5% between August 2019 and July 2020 can we read in the pages of

.

In total, more than 11,000 km2 in the Amazon have been deforested.

A record for ten years.

And it is the State of Pará which is the most affected according to the daily newspaper since it alone represents nearly half of the deforested areas.

Since 2012, deforestation has accelerated in Brazil and even more since the coming to power of Jair Bolsonaro, a climate skeptic, recalls

.

The Brazilian government is doing nothing to fight against this scourge, says the daily.

The army has certainly been dispatched, but the methods employed are not able to curb what many consider to be an ecological disaster.

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