Posted on Dec 11, 2019 2020 at 6:59Updated 11 Dec. 2020 at 7:13
Since the beginning of the Covid-19 pandemic , more than 69.5 million positive cases and nearly 1.6 million deaths have been recorded worldwide. In Europe, despite restrictive measures, the pandemic continues to spread.
In France, more than 14,000 new cases were recorded on Wednesday. A number very far from the 5,000 daily cases set as one of the conditions for deconfinement.
Information to remember
> Establishment of a curfew from December 15 in France between 8 p.m. and 6 a.m., except December 24
> More than 3,000 deaths and more than 220,000 cases in 24 hours in the United States
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> Sanofi and GSK announce that their vaccine will not be ready until the end of 2021
The two pharmaceutical groups explain that the interim results of phase I / II showed an insufficient immune response in adults.
As a result, vaccine availability is now expected in the fourth quarter of 2021, if the development plan is successfully completed.
> Almost 30,000 additional cases in Germany
The number of confirmed cases has now reached 1,272,078. There have been some 29,875 new cases in the past 24 hours, according to the Robert Koch Institute (RKI) for Infectious Diseases. It also reports 598 additional deaths, bringing the death toll linked to the pandemic to 20,970.
> South Korea is building 150 temporary screening centers
According to the Korea Disease Control and Prevention Agency (KDCA), 689 new confirmed cases, including 673 local infections, have been detected in the past 24 hours. Since the start of the pandemic, 40,786 cases of infection have been identified.
As local authorities warn that the current wave is likely to be larger and longer than the previous one, they have decided to increase the number of drug tests. As part of this, around 150 temporary screening centers will be set up in the Seoul metropolitan area, KDCA said.
> Australia stops vaccine development
The development of a vaccine against Covid-19 in Australia was abandoned on Friday. Clinical trials had produced a false positive HIV result among test participants, the government said.
This vaccine candidate, which was still in the first phase of trials at the University of Queensland, used a small amount of HIV protein. However, it triggered an antibody response that could interfere with HIV testing, explained the Minister of Health, Greg Hunt.
> Fifteen additional cases in mainland China
According to the National Health Commission, nine of these cases concern people arriving from abroad. Since the onset of the pandemic, China has officially recorded 86,688 proven cases of contamination.
At the same time, the pandemic has caused 4,634 deaths in the country. A stable figure for several months. No additional deaths were reported on Friday.
> The United States close to giving the green light to the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine
On Thursday, an advisory committee voted to recommend to the United States Medicines Agency (FDA) to authorize in the United States a first vaccine against Covid-19: the one developed by Pfizer-BioNTech and which has already been authorized by the Kingdom -U, Canada, Bahrain and Saudi Arabia.
The green light from the FDA should logically follow in the next few days. This would allow the vaccination to start as early as next week. The most affected country in the world, the United States has recorded nearly 6,000 deaths from the virus in 48 hours, and its overall death toll is approaching 300,000.
> Curfew: no change for long-distance travelers during the holidays
The implementation of the curfew at 8 p.m. from December 15 does not change anything for people who planned to travel at night during the holiday season, SNCF said in a statement. “SNCF Voyageurs confirms that all TGV Inoui, Ouigo, Intercités, and international trains scheduled will run normally from December 15 and throughout the holiday season,” she said.
> The executive toughens deconfinement
The Prime Minister confirmed the deconfinement on Thursday from next Tuesday. But faced with an epidemic that is no longer receding, he has given up on reopening cinemas, theaters and other gymnasiums on that date.
The curfew will be implemented from 8 p.m. It will be lifted on Christmas Eve but not on December 31. It will therefore not be possible to leave home after 8 pm on New Year’s Eve, because this evening “concentrates all the ingredients for an epidemic rebound”.
> Christmas: a midnight mass without an audience in Bethlehem
Bethlehem Christmas Mass, usually attended by crowds of worshipers in the West Bank city, will be celebrated this year without an audience due to restrictions linked to the novel coronavirus, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas said.
> Shortage of masks: “no pressure was exerted” to modify an expert report, according to the DGS
The Directorate General of Health assured that “no pressure” had been exerted to modify a posteriori an expert report recommending the constitution of a large stock of masks, which could have enabled the country not to use it. miss at the start of the Covid-19 epidemic.
The Senate commission of inquiry on the health crisis questioned the responsibility of the Director General of Health, Jérôme Salomon, in the shortage of masks from which France has suffered. She accuses him of “direct pressure” on the agency to modify recommendations concerning stocks.
> Brazil at the “very end” of the Covid-19 pandemic, according to Jair Bolsonaro
The Brazilian president assured that Brazil was “at the very end of the coronavirus pandemic”, while his country is experiencing an alarming rise in contaminations and deaths due to a second wave of Covid-19.
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