The situation continues to improve in France. In intensive care units, the number of Covid patients fell below 2,000 on Tuesday, a first since October. To increase collective immunity and fight against the Delta variant, vaccination of adolescents is now possible, with the agreement of both parents.
The pandemic has killed more than 3,813,990 people worldwide since the end of December 2019. After the United States (more than 600,000 deaths), the countries recording the highest number of deaths are Brazil (488,228), India ( 377,031), Mexico (230,187) and Peru (188,921).
The information to remember
> The time between two doses of Pfizer and Moderna vaccines can be shortened
> Five million adolescents aged 12 to 17 can be vaccinated
> Less than 2,000 people treated in intensive care in France
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> Germany exceeds the threshold of 90,000 deaths
Germany has recorded 1,455 new confirmed cases of coronavirus contamination, according to data released on Wednesday by the Robert Koch Institute for Infectious Diseases, bringing the total number of infections since the start of the health crisis to 3,717,625 . The institute also reported 137 additional deaths linked to Covid, for a toll now amounting to 90,074 deaths.
> Japan: a limit of 10,000 spectators envisaged before the Olympics
The Japanese government could limit the number of spectators to 10,000 after the end of the state of health emergency on June 20, media reported, while organizers of the Tokyo Olympics are also considering a gauge. A Japanese government working group on Covid-19 is due to discuss the proposal, according to the business daily “Nikkei” and the Kyodo news agency.
In March, the organizers of the Tokyo Games took the unprecedented decision to ban spectators coming from abroad. They must decide after the end of the state of emergency whether spectators residing in Japan will be admitted to the competition venues and within what limits.
> Almost all restrictions now lifted in the states of New York and California
Exit the masks for people vaccinated in most public places, as well as the capacity limitations for restaurants and other establishments, welcomed the Governor of California, Gavin Newsom, during a ceremony organized to mark “the reopening. complete California economy ”.
Ditto in New York, which has reached 70% of adults having received at least one dose of vaccine, allowing the governor to also announce the lifting of the latest restrictions. A symbol, while New York had been, for long weeks, the epicenter of the epidemic last year, before California in turn became one of the main foci of coronavirus during the winter .
These lifting of restrictions should not make us forget that more than 600,000 people have died of Covid-19 in the United States since the start of the pandemic, according to figures released Tuesday by Johns Hopkins University. A dark cape reminding that hundreds of Americans still die every day from the coronavirus, despite the vaccination campaign. The United States is by far the country with the heaviest death toll linked to the coronavirus, according to official data communicated by authorities around the world, ahead of Brazil and India.
> One in four Covid patients has persistent health concerns
Nearly a quarter of people who have contracted Covid face, a month or more later, health problems that they had not experienced before their infection, according to a large study that analyzed the medical data of nearly 2 millions of Americans affected by the virus.
The survey is the largest ever to study the long-term effects of the disease, according to Fair Health, an independent organization that collected information from health insurance companies. The two main problems observed in the cohort of this study are pain (neuralgia, muscle pain, etc.) for 5% of people, and difficulty breathing in 3.5% of cases.
> France returns to below 2,000 patients in intensive care
Currently, 1,952 Covid patients are in French intensive care units. We have to go back to October 18, 2020 to find a comparable figure (1,939).
All departments combined, 12,008 patients are currently hospitalized for Covid, which has been declining steadily since mid-April. France has never gone back below the 12,000 mark since October 19. Over the past 24 hours, 300 people have been hospitalized because of the Covid, including 69 in the emergency services.
In addition, vaccination is progressing: while it opened Tuesday to adolescents, 30.7 million people received at least one injection (45.9% of the total population and 58.6% of the adult population. ), including 14.7 who had two (22.0% of the total population and 28.1% of the adult population). A total of 16.5 million people have been fully immunized.
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