Contaminations and hospitalizations continue to decline in France. The United States will double its vaccine donations bringing the total doses promised to poor countries to more than 1.1 billion, Joe Biden announced Wednesday. Follow all the news related to Covid-19.
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France will give poor countries 120 million doses of the Covid-19 vaccine, double what it previously planned, President Emmanuel Macron promised on Saturday.
“The injustice is that in other continents, obviously, vaccination is very late. Because of us, collectively. In Africa, it is barely 3% of the population who is vaccinated – we must go faster, stronger “, launched the Head of State in a video sequence broadcast during the concert in Paris of the charity. Global Citizen.
8 p.m.
“Against Macron and his liberticidal measures”: thousands of people demonstrated on Saturday in the streets of many cities to denounce the health pass and the vaccination obligation of caregivers for the eleventh consecutive Saturday.
In Paris, where four processions were to walk the streets, a few thousand people, including many yellow vests, demonstrated between the Gare de Lyon (12th arrondissement) and the Sacré Coeur (18th century), while others responded to the appeal of Florian Philippot (far right) in the wealthier west. In total, between 60,000 and 80,000 people were to mobilize through 185 processions throughout France, marking a sharp decline compared to the start of the movement, which began in mid-July.
“I am demonstrating against Macron and his liberticidal measures. Me, I am not vaccinated, I do not have confidence, but I will perhaps be obliged if the tests become paying “, related Tristan, retiree of 72 years,” yellow vest of the first hour “, in the Parisian demonstration .
In the procession, according to an AFP journalist, a man disguised as Jesus Christ carried a cross in the form of rails on which was written “Halt pass” as well as “Arbeit Macht Frei” (Work makes free), an inscription which appeared at the entrance to Nazi concentration and extermination camps.
6:48 p.m.
Ireland on Saturday ended the mandatory two-week quarantine imposed since March on visitors entering the country to fight the spread of the coronavirus. Irish Health Minister Stephen Donnelly announced in a statement “the withdrawal, as of today, of all remaining countries on the official list of states” whose nationals were subject to a 14-day quarantine at hotel upon arrival in Ireland.
In addition to nationals of states designated by the Irish government, travelers who could not show a negative PCR test for covid-19 were also subject to quarantine. According to the Department of Health, 10,300 people have been quarantined at the hotel on their arrival in Ireland over the past six months.
Almost 600 of them tested positive during their stay.
10:43 am
India will export eight million doses of the coronavirus vaccine by the end of October, after lifting its ban on sending doses abroad, a senior business ministry official said on Saturday. foreigners.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi made the pledge at a summit with leaders of the United States, Japan and Australia – “the quadrangle” of the Pacific region – in Washington on Friday.
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“Guyana had never recorded so many deaths and admissions in intensive care” since the start of the Covid-19 epidemic, alerted the epidemiological bulletin of Public Health France on Friday.
During the last seven days, “21 Guyanese have succumbed to Covid-19, a figure never reached”, for its part, underlined the ARS, Friday, in its daily bulletin.
An increase in Covid hospitalizations in pediatrics has been observed for 3 weeks, the under 20s represent 9% of hospitalizations, double their rate in wave 3 according to SPF.
On the other hand, if the number of hospitalizations reached the level of the peak of the 3rd wave last week as the previous one, it is still lower than the peak of the 1st wave. The delta variant was suspected in 99% of positive tests screened last week.