LIVE – Covid: the best in France, worsening of the epidemic in the United States

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>> Follow the events of this Saturday, November 28:

> Elisabeth Borne hopes for a decline in unemployment in 2021

Elisabeth Borne, Minister of Labor, said on Saturday that she hoped for a decline in unemployment in France in the fourth quarter and in 2021, thus continuing its decline after the peak of 6.157 million job seekers registered at the end of June, according to Reuters.

‘I hope that over 2021 unemployment will be able to decrease, of course,’ she said on France Inter. ‘Our economy has solid fundamentals and (…) can rebound, and obviously in 2021 it will rebound, we have all these exceptional mechanisms to bring young people into employment (…) and towards training.’

But Elisabetjh Borne nevertheless launched an appeal for responsibility to companies which have decided on major job cuts, such as Danone and Total.

“This is really not the time to send employees to a job market where you are less likely to find a job quickly than in normal times,” she said.

> More than 400,000 dead in Europe

More than 400,000 deaths from the new coronavirus have been recorded in Europe according to a report made by AFP from reports provided by the health authorities on Saturday.

Europe is the second most affected area in the world by the pandemic with 400,649 deaths in total (for 17,606,370 infections), behind Latin America and the Caribbean (444,026 deaths, 12,825,500 cases).

More than 36,000 deaths have been recorded there in the last seven days (36,147), the heaviest toll in a week since the start of the pandemic.

In total, nearly two-thirds of the region’s deaths were reported in the United Kingdom (57,551 deaths, 1,589,301 infections), Italy (53,677, 1,538,217), France (51,914, 2,196,119), Spain (44,668, 1,628,208) and Russia (39,068, 2,242,633).

> The situation is worsening in the United States

The number of new cases in 24 hours jumped to more than 205. OOO Friday in the country, the epidemic being favored by Thanksgiving shopping. Los Angeles has declared a new lockdown, and New York alone has seen 8,000 new cases, a first since April.

The total number of infected people reached 13.1 million, and the country now deplores 264,850 deaths from Covid-19.

> France: less than 4,000 patients in intensive care

The number of patients hospitalized in intensive care in France for an infection due to the coronavirus fell back below 4,000 this Friday for the first time since November 3, with 3,883 beds occupied, according to the daily report communicated by the authorities. The total number of hospitalized patients is also in decline, to 28,648 against 29,310 the day before (-662).

In terms of new contaminations, France recorded 12,459 additional cases in 24 hours while the total number of deaths increased by 957, including 393 in 24 hours in hospitals and 564 in nursing homes, whose reports are updated twice a week.

> 11,000 new cases in 24 hours in Spain, 28,000 in Italy

The Spanish Ministry of Health reported on Friday 10,853 new cases of Covid-19 in 24 hours, bringing the national total to 1,628,208 contaminations. The number of deaths attributed to the coronavirus in the last seven days stands at 1,177 – or 174.3 per day on average – against 1,220 on Thursday. The Spanish death toll now stands at 44,668 dead since the start of the pandemic.

Italy reported this Friday of 827 additional deaths linked to the coronavirus against 822 the day before, for a total of 53,677 deaths, according to the Ministry of Health. The authorities have also identified 28,352 new contaminations in the last 24 hours against 29,003 Thursday, for a total of 1.538 million cases. Lombardy remains the most affected region with 5,389 new cases.

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