On the eve of the reopening of terraces and cultural venues, hospital pressure continues to decrease in France.
The other good news, both in France and globally, came from vaccines, with progress from Sanofi and reassuring studies on Pfizer and Moderna's sera concerning vaccines.
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The French no longer have to wait.
On Wednesday, they will finally be able to go on the terraces of pubs and restaurants or in certain cultural places, after several months of deprivation.
A situation made possible by the continuous drop in hospital pressure and the progress of the vaccination campaign against the coronavirus.
In terms of vaccines precisely, the good news is legion: the candidate from Sanofi is well advanced and the sera from Pfizer and Moderna seem effective against the Indian variant.
Follow the evolution of the situation live.
The main information to remember:
- France is preparing for the reopening of terraces and certain cultural places
- Hospital pressure continues to drop, with 4,186 patients in critical care
- Sanofi announced very positive phase 2 results, Moderna and Pfizer an efficacy against the Brazilian variant
D-1 before partial reopening
After 203 days of closure in a row which put them in economic jeopardy, cinemas, theaters and museums will be able to reopen to the public with maximum attendance figures.
Rules also in force for clothing stores, some of which are showing a decline in their turnover of up to 40%, or toy stores authorized to raise the curtain Wednesday.
But it is undoubtedly the reopening of the terraces that is the most awaited by the French.
Even if between curfews, capricious weather and gauges (tables of six, at 50% of the capacity), reopening a terrace is a high-flying exercise for bistros, of which only 40% have an outdoor space.
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This breath of newfound freedom will be further limited: applied throughout the territory since January 16 at 6 p.m. then 7 p.m., the curfew will only be pushed back to 9 p.m. on Wednesday, before being postponed to 11 p.m. on June 9, then, if the health situation allows it, to disappear on June 30.
By this date, Disneyland will undoubtedly have reopened its doors, the amusement park having announced a reopening for June 17.
A clear decline in the epidemic
The reopening is taking place against a backdrop of a clear decline in the epidemic at the national level with an incidence rate that has fallen to 142 new cases per 100,000 inhabitants over seven days, when it peaked at more than 400 in early April. As a result, the decline is still continuing at the hospital where the number of Covid-19 patients reached less than 23,000 Monday (22,749), the lowest since October. Among them, some 4,186 patients were treated in intensive care units, a level in constant decline, even if Ile-de-France and Hauts-de-France still exceed 100% occupancy of their critical care services. .
And the daily death toll in hospital for Covid-19 patients was 196 on Monday, a hundred less than the previous Monday.
In total, the epidemic has so far killed some 107,850 people.
Good news at Sanofi, Pfizer and Moderna
The French laboratory Sanofi has published positive results from a human clinical trial on its main vaccine project against Covid-19, with an immune response rate between 95 and 100%, in all classes of age.
A phase 3 study, the last before the authorization of this vaccine developed with the British GSK, should start at the end of May / beginning of June.
Sanofi will start production in parallel.
"A very important step has just been taken", welcomed the president of Sanofi France on Monday on Europe 1.
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In other good news, Moderna and Pfizer / BioNTech's vaccines are expected to remain effective against the Indian variant of the coronavirus, according to preliminary work by American scientists and made public on Monday.
On the other hand, Unicef and the WHO on Monday called on the G7 and EU countries to increase their donation of doses to the Covax international system for the distribution of anti-Covid-19 vaccines to underprivileged countries.
In June, the Covax system will miss approximately 190 million doses compared to the initially planned volumes.
At the same time, US President Joe Biden was to announce Monday the sending by the end of June of 20 million additional doses to third countries.
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Pubs and stadiums reopen in UK, vaccination expanded in Germany
The UK opened indoor pubs and restaurants, hotels, museums, performance venues and stadiums on Monday.
Banned all winter, reunions in homes are again authorized (limited to six people or two homes maximum) as well as holidays abroad.
Recent outbreaks of the Indian variant, in London and in the north-west of England, nevertheless darken this picture.
Germany will open, from June 7, the anti-Covid vaccination to all adults.
After a sluggish start, the vaccination campaign in Germany reached a sustained pace.
The situation remains much more complicated in India, hit by a violent cyclone, which is hampering efforts to combat the devastating Covid-19 epidemic which kills more than 4,000 every day.
Nearly 3.4 million dead
The pandemic has killed at least 3,381,042 people around the world since the end of December 2019, according to a report established by AFP from official sources on Monday morning.
After the United States (586,330 deaths), the most affected countries are Brazil (436,537), India (274,390), Mexico (220,433), and the United Kingdom (127,679).