DIRECT. Covid-19: flash and drastic confinement in New Zealand after the discovery of a local case – archyde

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9:20 a.m. In Japan. The capital Tokyo recorded 2,962 new cases of Covid yesterday, after Friday’s record (5,773). Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga is due to hold a press conference at 9 p.m. (local time, i.e. 2 p.m. in France).

9:10. 23 “sensitive” places in New Zealand. Authorities have released a list of 23 sites and stores – 10 in Auckland and 13 in Coromandel – where the contaminated man has visited since last week (read below at 7:50 am and 8:45 am). People who have visited these places are invited to be tested.

9:05 am. Employment is improving in the UK. The National Bureau of Statistics took stock this morning: from April to June, the unemployment rate continued to drop to 4.7%, after rising to 5.2% in the last quarter of the year last. 182,000 people were hired in July, while the government maintained its partial unemployment scheme. At the end of June, 540,000 companies were still benefiting from it, for 1.9 million of their employees.

8:55 am. The Covid makes the skate skate. The figure skating Grand Prix scheduled for November 4 to 7 in China, in the city of Chongqing, has been canceled due to health constraints linked to the resumption of the pandemic. The international federation (ISU) estimates in a press release that “the very limited number of international flights to Chinese cities and the health restrictions linked to Covid-19” which prevent the establishment of “a competition bubble”.

8.45 a.m. New Zealand confined for three days, Auckland Sept. From this evening, the country is reconfigured after the discovery of a case in Auckland, the capital, confined, it, like the city of Coromandel, for a week, announces the Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern. “We have to act strong and fast,” she warned. A 58-year-old man from Devonport tested positive this morning. He had been contagious since Thursday but ignored it. Unvaccinated, he spent the weekend with his fully vaccinated wife in Coromandel.

8:35 am. In South Africa. 7,983 new contaminations were identified yesterday in 24 hours. In the country, the pandemic has killed a total of 77,440. 9.55 million doses of vaccine were injected.

8:28. The psychic evils of Covid. If there is no psychological pathology triggered by the Covid, specialists note “anxiety, panic attacks, some are still afraid at the idea of ​​going out. There are also depressions, we see a form of despair, ”says Professor Antoine Pélissolo on France Inter. There are also people who lived this period well, “when they had sufficient comfort elements”.

8:23. A psychiatrist reflects on the challenge. The anti-pass demonstrations are a sign of “tension”, “we could hope for a stronger cohesion in the face of the adversity that we all live”, estimates on France Inter the psychiatrist Antoine Pélissolo, head of department at the CHU Henri-Mondor of Créteil. “It is more worrying in the long term to know how to rebuild social cohesion more than confidence in vaccines”, judges the one who is also elected from the PS.

8:15 am. Critical situation in Sydney. The state of New South Wales, including the capital Sydney, has reported 452 cases in the past 24 hours, the third largest increase in a day, and one new death. “We envision that the number of cases within two or three weeks is likely to increase substantially,” Gladys Berejiklian, Prime Minister of the state, told reporters.

8:05 am. In Florida, thousands of students in quarantine. A week after the start of the school year, Hillsborough County public schools, which include the city of Tampa, are heavily affected by the coronavirus. 5,599 students and 316 school employees are currently in isolation, for people who test positive, or in quarantine, for close contact cases.

The school board is meeting tomorrow at noon to discuss the possibility of making the mask mandatory, in contradiction to the executive orders of Governor Ron DeSantis.

7:55 am. Covid skeptics, until the end. Professor Philippe Juvin, head of emergency at the Georges-Pompidou hospital and mayor (LR) of La Garenne-Colombes, testifies on France Info: “I am very surprised! Some who arrive in intensive care remain very skeptical even though they are on the verge of intubation ”.

7:50 a.m. First local case in New Zealand since February 28. The person tested positive in Auckland, the country’s largest city; the origin of its contamination has not yet been determined. A council of ministers must be held during the day to decide on the measures to be taken to “stop any further spread”, said the Minister of Health, calling for calm and responsibility for everyone. Auckland’s two million residents have been confined for short periods and the last time was in March.

7.40 am. In the USA, the mask battle continues. The city of El Paso has filed a lawsuit challenging the mask ban imposed by Texas Governor Greg Abbott. At midnight tonight, the mask will be mandatory in all public spaces in the city for people over 2 years old.

7:30 am. Japan is preparing to extend the state of emergency. Covid-19 infections “are spreading across Japan on a scale never seen before,” said Yasutoshi Nishimura, the minister responsible for coordinating the management of the health crisis this morning. “The number of patients in serious condition is increasing every day,” he added in a meeting with health experts. Friday and Saturday, daily contaminations crossed the 20,000 people mark.

7:20 a.m. A cluster on a cruise ship requires extensive contact case research. Twenty-seven vaccinated people who were on board the “Carnival Vista” tested positive last week. “Most are asymptomatic or have very mild symptoms,” reassured the Belize Tourist Board, the destination of the ship, which left Galveston (Texas). A contact case search was launched for nearly 3,000 passengers and 1,500 crew on board the vessel at the same time.

7:10 am. Argentines angry with their president. Relatives of Covid-19 victims demonstrated yesterday in Buenos Aires against President Alberto Fernandez, a photo of which, published recently, showed that he had organized a party a year ago, in full confinement, and while even burials were prohibited. They laid hundreds of stones with the names of the dead from the pandemic in front of the head of state’s palace, Casa Rosada. The virus has killed more than 109,000 in Argentina.

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