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8:45 p.m.
Nearly 45,000 demonstrators (45,300) marched today across the country to protest against the health pass for the 13th consecutive Saturday, announced the Ministry of the Interior. Mobilization is down slightly compared to last week. In addition, 14 people were arrested during the rallies, including four in Paris.
12:49
Russia recorded a new record of daily deaths from Covid-19 on Saturday, an epidemic wave carried by the Delta variant since the summer against the backdrop of a very laborious vaccination campaign. In the last 24 hours, 968 deaths caused by the coronavirus have been recorded, according to the government’s record. In recent days, the country has already broken its daily death record several times.
10:36
The Blues midfielder Adrien Rabiot, tested positive for Covid-19, was “placed in isolation” and will not be able to play in the League of Nations final on Sunday against Spain, the French Federation announced on Saturday.
The Juventus Turin player “will not rally Milan” with his teammates and “cannot be replaced” for this final by coach Didier Deschamps, already deprived of Lucas Digne due to injury.
Rabiot (26) was tested, like all of his teammates, on Friday noon, for results obtained on Saturday morning before the departure for Lombardy, said the FFF. All other tests came back negative.
08:24
Depression and anxiety cases have increased by more than a quarter worldwide in 2020 due to the Covid-19 pandemic, according to a study published on Saturday in The Lancet. The study is the first to assess the global impacts of the pandemic on major depressive disorders and anxiety disorders, detailing them by age, gender and location in 204 countries and territories in 2020.
The results show that in 2020, cases of major depressive disorders and anxiety disorders increased by 28% and 26% respectively. “This highlights an urgent need to strengthen health systems,” said lead author of the study Damien Santomauro of the Queensland Center for Mental Health Research, School of Public Health, Australia.
“Even before the pandemic, mental health care systems in most countries were under-resourced and disorganized. Responding to this additional demand (…) will be difficult, but it is not possible to do nothing ”, he adds.
07:13
Venezuela will install “traffic lights” at the entrance to public places and restaurants controlling the vaccination status of customers, President Nicolas Maduro announced on public television on Friday.
“We prepare traffic lights (…) for restaurants and public places (…) Green when the person is vaccinated. Orange when it is not vaccinated but + healthy +. Red when the person is not vaccinated and has had a positive test within 21 days, ”announced the president, referring to an implementation at the end of October. This system would work with a database that would know if the person is vaccinated simply with his identity card number, said Vice-President Delcy Rodriguez.
06:51
The toll of the Covid-19 pandemic in Latin America and the Caribbean exceeded 1.5 million deaths on Friday, according to a count made by AFP from official figures. The death toll from the coronavirus in particular exceeded 600,000 on Friday in Brazil, the second most bereaved country in the world after the United States. Mexico, Peru, Colombia and Argentina have the highest numbers of deaths after Brazil. With 605 deaths from Covid-19 per 100,000 inhabitants, Peru is the country with the highest death rate in the subcontinent.