Posted on Oct 9, 2020 at 7:06 amUpdated Oct 9, 2020 11:37 AM
The virus is still active. More than 36.2 million cases of infection have been officially diagnosed worldwide since the end of December, for a toll of 1,057,084 deaths.
Faced with the deterioration of the indicators, Lille, Lyon, Grenoble and Saint-Etienne will spend Saturday in the maximum alert zone due. These cities will join Aix-Marseille, Paris and Guadeloupe, where reinforced health measures, such as the closing of bars, have already been taken.
For Toulouse and Montpellier, “we give ourselves a few days”, until Monday morning, to possibly make the same decision, assured Olivier Véran, Thursday, during his weekly press conference.
The main information to remember
> Lille, Grenoble, Saint-Etienne and Lyon will go into maximum alert zone
> Trump says he is ready to go back to campaign
> China joins the WHO COVAX system
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> The Paris-Roubaix canceled
The Paris-Roubaix cycling race which was to take place on October 25 is canceled, the organizers announced on Friday the day after the Lille metropolis was placed on maximum alert in the face of the epidemic due to the new coronavirus.
The “Queen of the classics”, renowned for its cobbled sectors, traditionally takes place in April but it had been postponed due to the health crisis, while France was in full containment. There will therefore be no 2020 edition and the next one is scheduled for April 11, 2021. “At the request of the Prefect of the North, Prefect of Hauts-de-France and following yesterday’s announcement by Olivier Véran, Minister of Solidarity and Health, placing the European Metropolis of Lille (MEL) on high alert, the 118th edition of Paris-Roubaix and the 1st edition of Paris-Roubaix Women which were to take place on October 25, will not be organized ” , says Amaury Sport Organization (ASO).
> Nearly 3 million migrants stranded by Covid-19
At least 2.75 million migrants were prevented from returning home this summer by restrictions imposed to combat the covid-19 pandemic, says the UN, urgently calling for international cooperation to find solutions to the crisis.
“The scale and implementation of tens of thousands of travel restriction measures, including border closures and containment measures related to Covid-19, require states to collaborate with their neighbors and countries of origin migrants to meet their needs and their vulnerabilities ”, underlined the Director General of the International Migration Office, Antonio Vitorino, whose organization is publishing this first detailed inventory on the subject.
> Russia beats its record with 12,126 new daily cases
Russia recorded 12,126 new daily cases of coronavirus on Friday, exceeding the peak in May when the authorities still say they are not planning any major containment measures immediately.
According to official figures, 12,126 contaminations have been recorded in the last 24 hours while the previous maximum was 11,656 in May. The number of deaths during the last 24 hours was 201, for a total of 22,257 deaths from the coronavirus.
> Attal believes that we can “catch the virus at speed”
“There is a horizon in the fog” of the Covid-19 epidemic, said government spokesman Gabriel Attal on Friday, who believes that “we can still take the virus quickly”
“The epidemic continues to progress, quickly, very quickly in some areas. However, there is a horizon in the fog, because the epidemic circulates less quickly than it circulated last spring ”, he argued on France 2, stressing that a patient is contaminating today “On average a little more than one person” against “on average three people” last spring, thanks to the “efforts of the French” who “apply the barrier gestures”.
> In the United Kingdom, the economy is picking up but remains below its pre-crisis level
The United Kingdom recorded a 2.1% increase in its gross domestic product (GDP) in August compared to July, its fourth consecutive month of growth after the historic recession triggered in the spring by containment to stem the pandemic of coronavirus. However, GDP remains 9.2% below its February level, before the impact of the pandemic, said the National Statistics Office on Friday.
> Coronavirus: the epidemic is accelerating in Germany
The number of confirmed cases of coronavirus contamination in Germany climbed to 314,660, 4,516 more cases than the day before, according to data released Friday by the Robert Koch Institute (RKI) for infectious diseases. Eleven additional deaths have been reported, according to RKI, bringing the total to 9,589 deaths since the start of the epidemic in the country.
> China joins the WHO COVAX system
China announced on Friday that it is formally joining the World Health Organization (WHO) COVID-19 global vaccine access scheme, becoming the world’s largest economy to support the initiative, called “COVAX”.
In a statement, the spokeswoman for the Chinese Foreign Ministry said that China has significant capacity to produce a vaccine against the disease caused by the novel coronavirus and that it will provide priority to developing countries. development when a vaccine is ready.
> Trump ready to go back to campaign
A few days after leaving the hospital where he was being treated for his coronavirus infection, Donald Trump said he was planning to participate in a campaign rally on Saturday in Florida, a key state for the November 3 presidential election, so even as Democrats question his ability to govern.
> Spanish government warns Madrid
Madrid must respect the ban on non-essential travel ordered by the Ministry of Health to limit the spread of the coronavirus, or face a state of emergency imposed which will force the capital to comply with this measure, said Thursday evening the Spanish central government.
In a further escalation of tensions between the two administrations, the central government of socialist Pedro Sanchez has indicated that it will hold an extraordinary council of ministers on Friday morning to declare a state of emergency in Madrid if it does not implement restrictions or seek government assistance.
> Olivier Véran “does not believe at all” in the need to re-define
“Deeply, I do not believe at all that we need to reconfine the country”, assured Thursday the Minister of Health on BFMTV. “It’s already heartbreaking to ask restaurateurs to further reduce the wing, to ask bars to close, to ask more young people to go to the gym. “
He also recalled the existence of the health emergency stage, with the implementation of more restrictive measures, but which do not go as far as confinement, “we do not want to get there”.
> In May, 4.5% of French people had antibodies
About 4.5% of the population of metropolitan France had antibodies last May proving a past infection with Covid-19, according to the first estimates of a national survey announced Friday.
“This national seroprevalence, ie the proportion of people who have developed antibodies against the virus, is close to that observed in European countries for which data of the same type are available. It is consistent with the estimates already published in France ”, indicate the authors of this study.
> The Covid destroyed 107,000 jobs in the gas and oil industries in the United States
The gas and oil sectors across the Atlantic laid off in the spring of 2020, according to a Deloitte study. In question: the prices of black gold at half mast, doubts about the future of hydrocarbons and the coronavirus pandemic.
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