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

- Vaccine doses in the EU: target achieved -

The European Union has reached its goal of having enough doses in July to immunize 70% of its adult population, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said on Saturday, estimating that the Union, which has some 366 million adults, is "up to the task".

The EU's joint vaccine purchasing program provided 330 million doses of the BioNTech-Pfizer vaccine, 100 million of AstraZeneca, 50 million of Moderna and 20 million of Johnson & Johnson.

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- New record of cases in South Korea ...-

South Korea on Saturday reported 1,378 new coronavirus infections, a record for the third day in a row in a country that has long been set up as a model for managing the pandemic.

From Monday, Seoul will impose for two weeks the most draconian restrictions that the capital has known since the start of the health crisis.

It will be forbidden to gather more than two after 6:00 p.m. and schools will be closed, as will bars and nightclubs.

- .... and deaths in Russia -

Hit hard by the Delta variant, Russia also announced on Saturday a new record of daily deaths (752) from the coronavirus, the fifth since the beginning of the month.

The country also lists 25,082 new contaminations.

Since the start of the pandemic, more than 5.7 million cases have been recorded in Russia and 142,253 people have died according to government figures.

- New restrictions in the Netherlands -

The Netherlands plunged back into health restrictions on Saturday morning after a seven-fold increase in daily contaminations in a week, to reach 7,000 new cases on Friday.

In particular, the Dutch government has decided to close all nightclubs and close restaurants at midnight.

- Tokyo Olympics: no spectators in Hokkaido and Fukushima -

The prefectures of Hokkaido and Fukushima, in northern Japan, have decided to ban the presence of spectators in the stands during the football, baseball and softball matches of the Olympic Games (23 July-8 August) which there are provided.

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The governor of the Hokkaido region thus takes the opposite view of the Japanese authorities who had announced the day before that the events would take place behind closed doors in the capital and neighboring departments but that spectators could be present at other competition venues.

- No cluster at the Cannes festival -

"There is no Cannes cluster," said Cannes Festival general delegate Thierry Frémaux on Saturday, on the fifth day of an edition organized against the backdrop of the Covid-19 epidemic.

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"Yesterday, we made more than 3,000 tests and zero positive cases. All that to say that the rumors of a Cannes cluster are unfounded. We are all very careful, we all want to be exemplary, that the festival goes until 'at the end of the day, let the pandemic stop, "he said.

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