In France, the lifting of the curfew has been set for 11 p.m. from Sunday. The epidemic is racing in Moscow facing an outbreak of cases due to the Delta variant. In Africa too, the situation remains very worrying, according to local authorities. Follow the evolution of the situation live.
21h35
Brazil, the second country most bereaved by Covid-19 behind the United States, crossed the threshold of 500,000 deaths on Saturday, announced the Minister of Health.
“500,000 lives lost due to the pandemic affecting our Brazil and the world,” tweeted Marcelo Queiroga, without specifying the results of the last 24 hours. As of Friday, his ministry had recorded 498,499 deaths, with a daily average of more than 2,000 deaths in the past seven days.
19h19
The pressure continued to decrease on Saturday in hospitals, which have fewer than 11,000 Covid-19 patients, according to figures from Public Health France. The health agency now lists 10,531 hospitalized patients with Covid-19, against 10,738 the day before.
Only 102 new people have been hospitalized in the past 24 hours with a diagnosis of Covid-19.
Critical care services (which bring together resuscitation, intensive care and continuous monitoring) accommodated 1,703 people, against 1,740 on Thursday.
In 24 hours, only 24 new patients with severe forms of Covid were admitted to these services.
Cumulative data over the last 7 days show 1,394 new hospitalizations including 318 admissions in critical care.
France also deplores 22 new hospital deaths on Saturday due to the coronavirus, for a total of 110,753 deaths since the start of the epidemic, including 84,297 in hospital.
19h03
Prime Minister Jean Castex received his second dose of AstraZeneca vaccine on Saturday and should be fully immune to Covid-19 in two weeks, Matignon told AFP.
The head of government received his first dose on March 19 under the watchful eye of the cameras at the Bégin hospital in Saint-Mandé, near Paris. The episode was highly publicized, broadcast live on news channels.
It was at the time, in the middle of the third wave, to reassure the French about the effects of the Swedish-British vaccine, the use of which had been briefly suspended after the reporting of rare but serious side effects, such as formation of blood clots.
Saturday, as the epidemic recedes and France is preparing to end the curfew regime, it is in all discretion that Jean Castex received in Matignon his second injection of AstraZeneca, a vaccine reserved for people 55 years and over.
The Prime Minister was released Wednesday from a period of seven days in solitary confinement after having been in contact with his wife.
11h23
Moscow recorded a new record for cases of coronavirus contamination on Saturday for the second day in a row, with 9,120 infections in 24 hours, according to government figures.
Already on Friday, the Russian capital had registered 9,056 new cases, according to statistics published on the stopcoronavirus.rf site. Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin claimed that this Covid-19 outbreak was due to the Delta variant, which appeared in India.
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