Faced with an epidemic resumption in Corsica, caused by the delta variant, the Regional Health Agency launched the white plan on the island. In New York, the town hall will set up the vaccination passport to access certain places. Most of the news on the Covid this Tuesday.–
In France, the number of patients hospitalized with Covid-19 continues to climb, including in intensive care services, facing an outbreak of the delta variant, according to figures released on Tuesday by Public Health France. Critical care services, which receive the most serious cases, have 1,331 patients (including 218 admissions in 24 hours) against 1,232 patients on Monday and 978 a week ago. This indicator had passed below the 1000 threshold on July 7, before starting to rise slowly and return above 1000 last week. The number of Covid patients in hospital is now 7,974, 134 more than Monday and 837 more than a week ago.
Guadeloupe, faced with a “Catastrophic situation” in terms of the Covid epidemic, is preparing to be re-defined for a period of at least three weeks from Wednesday at 8 p.m., prefect Alexandre Rochatte announced on Monday. The Caribbean island follows Martinique, confined since Friday evening for three weeks as well.
In Corsica, the Regional Health Agency (ARS) this Tuesday afternoon triggered the white plan in hospitals in order to fight against the fourth wave of Covid. Corsica has the highest incidence rate in France after Martinique, with 650 cases per 100,000 inhabitants, according to the ARS. This rate climbs to 830 per 100,000 inhabitants, focusing only on Haute-Corse.
While it had been more than a year since the Covid-19 had disappeared from the streets of Wuhan, a resurgence of the epidemic is observed there. The Chinese city where the epidemic first appeared at the end of 2019 is in turn affected by a limited outbreak and will screen all its inhabitants. Three new cases of Covid-19 were confirmed on Monday in the metropolis of 11 million souls, caught by an outbreak of the delta strain that appeared last month in the east of the country. The previous cases recorded in the city dated back to May 2020.
In Morocco, a curfew expanded came into force on Tuesday, as well as travel restrictions to and from Agadir, Casablanca and Marrakech, in order to stem the outbreak of coronavirus contaminations.
Half of the EU population fully vaccinated
If the epidemic is regaining ground, vaccination too: half of the population of the European Union is now fully vaccinated against Covid-19, according to a count made by AFP on Tuesday at midday. In total, this represents 223.8 million people who received two doses, a single dose after recovery or a single dose vaccine.
Faced with the virulence of the delta variant, several countries are already considering the next step and have adopted the principle of a third dose like Germany, which has set the deadline for September for the elderly, vulnerable populations but also for people who have received injections of a vaccine other than messenger RNA (Pfizer or Moderna). Sweden is considering a third dose by 2022. A recall could even be offered this fall to the most fragile people in Sweden. The final decision, however, has not yet been made. In France, the exact scope of people who will be offered a vaccine booster against Covid-19 at the start of the school year should be the subject of arbitration “next week”, the Ministry of Health announced on Tuesday.
The milestone of 70% of vaccinated adults crossed in the United States
The United States has crossed the threshold of 70% of adults who have received at least one dose of Covid vaccine, nearly a month after the target date set by President Biden, when hospitalizations are reaching levels comparable to those of the wave last summer. 49.7% of the total population are now fully vaccinated. Praising them “generosity”, the United States also announced that it had distributed more than 111 million vaccines worldwide, more donations than “All other countries combined” and “This is just the beginning”, according to a statement. At the same time, the country is hit by a new wave linked to the delta variant, hospitalizations reaching levels comparable to those of the peak of last summer.
