DIRECT. Covid-19: the incidence rate above 200 in a quarter of French departments – archyde

Follow the events of the day live:

9:10. Canceled planes between Australia and New Zealand. Australia will reopen its borders to foreign students and workers (read at 6:10 a.m.), New Zealand will end Auckland’s confinement in ten days (at 7 a.m.), and yet … Air New Zealand cancels a thousand flights between the two countries, due to “persistent uncertainty regarding the border” between the two countries. This decision will affect 20,000 passengers between now and the end of December. “This will be particularly distressing news for families and friends who were hoping to reunite for Christmas … But our hands are tied until border restrictions ease and the New Zealand government brings us some clarification.” said Leanne Geraghty, Director of Customer and Sales.

9 hours. Ireland backwards. According to’Irish Times, five ministers are meeting today to decide to reduce the aid paid to the unemployed Covid. As infections increase and new restrictions have been imposed on businesses, especially in the hospitality sector, the government plans to reduce PUP by 20%, aid paid when unemployment depends on the pandemic as well as direct subsidies to companies.

8:50 am. In Israel, 5-11 year olds vaccinated tomorrow. Today children account for 60% of new infections in Israel. Prime Minister Naftali Bennett said on Friday that the vaccination campaign for children aged 5 to 11 is expected to start on Tuesday; he promised to be “completely transparent” with the information he has in order to let parents make the decision for themselves.

8:40 am. A thousand vacant nursing posts at AP-HP. On France Inter, the boss of the AP-HP Martin Hirsch, recognizes that a thousand positions are not filled, out of a total of 18,000, and that 30% of the beds are closed, “it’s a little better than in September ”, but“ we do not take 13% fewer patients, we take 5 to 6% less, thanks to the teams who make considerable efforts ”. “Everyone tightens their buttocks and clenches their teeth to work more,” he greets.

8:20 am. In Kansas. The state legislature meets exceptionally this Monday to try to counter the vaccine obligations from Washington, which affect more than 100 million Americans. One of the avenues could be to make it easier for employees to invoke religious exemptions and increase unemployment benefits for the unvaccinated. Iowa did so last month, extending benefits to workers who refuse to be vaccinated.

8:08 am. Public holiday = brief effect. Thursday, November 11, and for some who made the jump, also on the 12th, had a positive effect on the spread of the virus which is, eleven days later, erased. According to our journalist, a quarter of French departments now have an incidence rate greater than 200.

8 hours. The vaccine campaign in China. With the 6.5 million doses of vaccines inoculated yesterday, China has already administered 2.437 billion doses, according to data from the National Health Commission.

7:50 a.m. “The recovery was very brutal. More than what we thought, ”explains Professor Arnaud Fontanet, member of the Scientific Council, on France Info. “The evolution of this epidemic is very volatile”, which makes predictions difficult, but “experience shows that the sooner you act, the less hard and shorter the measures will be”.

7.40 am. The benefits of the 3rd dose. Because of the Delta variant, “six months after the second dose, you have around 50% protection while it was almost 90% after the dose, but you decrease the risk of being hospitalized by 90%. % ”, Explains Professor Arnaud Fontanet on France Info. He adds that the “booster is very effective: one month later, the concentration of neutralizing antibodies is five to ten times higher than a month after the second injection”.

7:30 am. They defend the end of vaccine patents. Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch, Oxfam, Public Citizen and 11 other human rights groups urge United States President Joe Biden to personally engage in long-term fight for waiver intellectual property for Covid vaccines with the World Trade Organization. According to them, less than 7% of people in low-income countries have received a first vaccine

7:15 am. What if the vaccination passport was silent about many infections? Israeli researchers analyzed infection rates among people arriving in Israel. At Ben-Gurion airport, PCR tests on arrival are required regardless of vaccination status. In August 2021, the rate of positive tests among vaccinated travelers was more than twice that of unvaccinated travelers, said Retsef Levi, of MIT’s Sloan School of Management, co-author of the study. Limiting testing to unvaccinated people would therefore increase the risk of missing an infectious outbreak.

7 hours. In ten days, confinement ends in New Zealand. After three and a half months of shutting down the country’s largest city, Auckland, containment will end at 11:59 p.m. on December 2, and roadblocks will be lifted on December 15. “The hard truth is that (the variant) Delta is here and not going to go away,” Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern said, announcing a change in strategy.

6:45 am. Singapore is relaxing. As of Monday, the limits for social interactions and dining out will be extended to five people, up from two people currently vaccinated. Wearing a mask in public remains compulsory.

6.30 a.m. In Guadeloupe, schools closed. The continuation of “urban violence, abuses and other obstacles to movement”, led the rectorate to suspend this Monday the reception of students in schools, colleges and high schools. A meeting is scheduled to take stock. In the meantime, the teaching teams are doing distance learning and the staff of the Rectorate are teleworking.

The measure does not concern the establishments of Saint-Martin, Saint-Barthélemy, La Désirade, Marie-Galante and Les Saintes.

6:20 am. Troubles in the Netherlands. For the 3rd consecutive evening, clashes erupted against anti-Covid measures. Fifteen people were arrested in Rosendaal, near the Belgian border, after protesters set off a fire at a primary school, set a car on fire and launched powerful fireworks. Material damage is also numerous in Enschede, Groningen, Leeuwarden and Tilburg.

6:10 am. Australia will once again welcome foreign students. From December 1, international students, skilled workers and working holiday visa holders will be able to return to Australia. “Australia is reopening to the world,” Home Secretary Karen Andrews said this morning in announcing the news, adding that it was “another step forward for Australia”. A negative Covid test will suffice before departure for those vaccinated, some states in the country will however require quarantine.

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