The ebb of the epidemic allowed French Prime Minister Jean Castex to announce that wearing a mask outside would no longer be compulsory from Thursday, except in certain circumstances such as gatherings, crowded places or stadiums. He also announced the lifting of the curfew set at 11:00 p.m. starting Sunday. Follow the evolution of the situation live.
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The city of Moscow announced Friday to close its Euro football fan-zone and to ban any entertainment event bringing together more than 1,000 people due to the recent surge in Covid-19 cases. “We are stopping mass entertainment events for a while, and we must also close the dance halls and the fan zone for a while” at the Luzhniki Olympic complex, Mayor Sergei Sobyanin said on his website.
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Thursday, June 17, 2,786 new cases of Covid-19 were identified in 24 hours, according to figures from Public Health France, a total of 5,750,433 cases confirmed since the start of the epidemic.
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The pressure continued to decrease in hospitals, which have fewer than 12,000 hospitalized Covid-19 patients, according to figures from Public Health France. The largest hospital group in France, the Assistance publique-Hôpitaux de Paris (AP-HP), has lifted its “white plan”, “in view of the favorable development of trends that we have known for several weeks”, announced its direction.
In detail in France, on the side of hospitals, the pressure of the epidemic continued to ease, with 11,114 patients with Covid-19 hospitalized, against 11,519 the day before, according to data from Public Health France. Only 198 new people were hospitalized with a diagnosis of Covid-19. 1,799 people were in critical care services, which take care of the most serious cases, against 1,873 on Wednesday. These services recorded 39 new admissions in 24 hours.
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81.1% of nursing home residents are fully vaccinated against Covid-19, but only 41.9% of health professionals working in these establishments, according to new data published by Public Health France (SpF).
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