Vaccination, re-containment, epidemic assessment, virus mutation … Find the latest information on the health crisis linked to the Covid-19 pandemic.
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by LIBERATION
published on March 4, 2021 at 8:05 am
(updated 36 min ago)
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The Covid accentuates inequalities in access to healthcare. At the first confinement, the most fragile categories would have given up more to consult a doctor, according to the first results of an investigation by the Observatory of the French Mutuality. 60% of the 7,000 people questioned said they did not realize “At least one treatment or act which they nevertheless needed”, write the authors of a study conducted under the aegis of the Health Insurance and the Observatory of non-recourse to rights and services (Odenore). The reasons most cited by people to explain these renouncements are “The material impossibility of achieving them”. The report reveals that the women and “People with different indicators of social deprivation” more likely to forgo care. In the lead: people who experienced a drop in income and / or an increase in household spending during this crisis.
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The «imposed confinement» in suspended nursing homes, visits and outings can resume. The Council of State ruled on Wednesday “Disproportionate” the recommendation of the Ministry of Solidarity and Health to completely ban outings to residents of institutions for the elderly, a measure taken in the context of the fight against the coronavirus epidemic. Seized by the children of a resident, the summary judge «suspend» this ban, considering that “The majority of residents have been vaccinated” and that action can now be taken by “School directors on a case-by-case basis”, according to a press release from the high administrative court. This “Imposed confinement” can “Alter the physical and psychological state of many residents, as several studies have shown”, underlines the judgment.
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Hope and hope in Germany with the start of deconfinement. Angela Merkel accepted Wednesday evening a gradual unlocking of the anti-Covid device in Germany, yielding to growing discontent in public opinion and within her own government seven months before the parliamentary elections. After more than nine hours of tough negotiations, the Chancellor and the leaders of the country’s 16 regional states have reached an agreement on a timetable for easing the partial containment measures in place since the end of last year. Private meetings will be possible, from March 8, between two homes, provided they do not exceed five people in total. Bookshops, florists and driving schools, which have already reopened in some Länder, will once again be able to welcome visitors across the country. This anti-Covid device is now only supported by a third of Germans, against two thirds in early January, according to a YouGov poll published this week. “Today, we can speak of hope and hope,” said the German Chancellor at a press conference, considering that her country was now entering “a new phase” in the fight against the epidemic. possible in particular by accelerating vaccinations.
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Bordeaux on a dry diet. The Gironde prefecture announced the ban on alcohol consumption from Thursday in the city center of Bordeaux, especially on the Garonne quays, particularly crowded last weekend with crowds around “shooters. beer ”, but these banks will remain open, the town hall said on Wednesday. The ban on alcohol consumption which takes effect Thursday, for 15 days, is valid on the public highway in the city center of Bordeaux, including on both banks of the banks of the Garonne, and in the parks and gardens of the city, announced the prefecture of the Gironde in a press release.
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Brazil on the brink of health collapse. Brazil recorded 1,910 deaths on Wednesday in 24 hours, breaking the sad record set the day before of 1,641 deaths. With a total of 259,271 dead from Covid-19, the huge Latin American country is the most bereaved in the world after the United States. With daily death records, hospitals on the brink of collapse and a snail-pace vaccination campaign, Brazil is facing the most violent moment of the pandemic without any national strategy. “For the first time since the start of the pandemic (more than a year ago) we are witnessing throughout the country a deterioration of the various indicators”, said the Fiocruz Foundation on Tuesday, which depends on the Ministry of Health. The “scenario is alarming”: a sharp increase in the number of contaminations and deaths, with high rates of severe acute respiratory syndromes (SARS) and intensive care bed occupancy exceeding 80% in 19 of the country’s 27 states, explains the institution. This second wave is even worse than the first. Over the past seven days, the moving average of coronavirus deaths has been 1,331, a figure that until February had never exceeded 1,100 deaths.
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