Paris (AFP)

New measures, new reports and highlights: an update on the latest developments in the Covid-19 pandemic around the world.

- India: hospitals submerged, in demand for oxygen -

Delhi's oxygen-starved hospitals launched SOS on Friday as thirteen Covid-19 patients died in a hospital fire in the suburbs of Mumbai, a tragedy adding to the health disaster overwhelming India.

In the last 24 hours, 330,000 new contaminations and 2,000 deaths have been recorded.

- United States: green light for the Johnson & Johnson vaccine -

American health authorities gave the green light on Friday to resume vaccination with Johnson & Johnson's serum in the United States, suspended on April 13 after rare cases of thrombosis.

The break in the use of the vaccine developed by the American laboratory had been decided to investigate several cases of women who developed serious cases of blood clots in association with low levels of platelets after their injection.

- New state of emergency in Japan -

The Japanese government declared a new state of emergency in Tokyo and three other departments, three months before the start of the Olympic Games scheduled in the Japanese capital, in the face of a sharp local upsurge in the coronavirus.

- Chile: AstraZeneca only for men -

AstraZeneca's Covid-19 vaccine, which Chile received its first shipment on Friday, will only be administered to men.

Chile's Institute of Public Health (ISP) last week, which in January granted emergency authorization for the vaccine, recommended its use in women over 55 and men over 18, but the Under Secretary of Health said on Friday that the vaccine "will only be given to men" from next week.

In Europe, the vaccine from the Anglo-Swedish laboratory has seen its use restricted in many countries due to very rare cases of thrombosis, mostly occurring in young patients.

- New Zealand suspends "the bubble" with Australia -

New Zealand on Friday suspended the travel "bubble" it had just opened with Australia, the government announced in Wellington, after a resurgence of the covid-19 pandemic in its big neighbor.

- Curfew in Ecuador, confinement in Peru -

Ecuador, one of the Latin American countries most affected by the Covid-19 pandemic, will impose a curfew over the next four weekends from Friday evening to Monday morning, in order to stem a new wave contagions.

Peru will establish compulsory national containment on Mother's Day, May 9, in order to limit "family gatherings which increase cases of Covid-19", the president of the Council of Ministers announced on Friday.

- The only flight to Easter Island suspended -

LATAM Airlines announced on Friday the temporary suspension of the only cargo flight that runs every week between Santiago de Chile and Easter Island, after a demonstration in the island airport against the arrival of non-residents.

- More than three million dead -

The novel coronavirus pandemic has killed at least 3,073,969 people worldwide since the WHO office in China reported the onset of the disease at the end of December 2019, according to a report established by AFP from from official sources Friday midday.

The United States is the country with the highest death toll with 571,109 deaths, followed by Brazil (386,416), Mexico (214,095), India (186,920) and the United Kingdom (127,345).

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