Coronavirus: update on the pandemic in the world – Orange news

AFP, published on Monday 06 September 2021 at 04:47

New measures, new reports and highlights: an update on the latest developments in the Covid-19 pandemic around the world.

– The climate cannot wait for the end of the pandemic –

Despite the Covid-19 pandemic, the world cannot postpone the “urgent” measures to be taken against global warming and the destruction of nature, which threaten human health, plead the main medical journals of the planet on Monday, in a report. unprecedented editorial.

“Health is already altered by the increase in global temperature and the destruction of nature,” write the editors of some twenty prestigious journals including the Lancet, the British Medical Journal and the National Medical Journal of India.

“The higher temperatures have led to increased cases of dehydration and kidney problems, malignant skin tumors, tropical infections, mental problems, pregnancy complications, allergies and mortality, and cardiovascular and pulmonary morbidity. “, underlines this editorial published in 220 medical journals.

A warming to + 1.5 ° C – a threshold which could be reached around 2030 according to the IPCC expert report published in early August -, and the continued loss of biodiversity “may lead to catastrophic and irreversible damage to the health”.

– World Qualifiers-2022: the Brazil-Argentina match stopped by the health authorities –

The reunion between Lionel Messi and Neymar with their selections came to an end, with the end of the Brazil-Argentina match on Sunday in Sao Paulo, on the intervention of the Brazilian health authorities, four Argentinian players playing in England being accused of violating anti-protocols. Covid.

Fifa confirmed in a statement that this qualifying match for the 2022 World Cup had been “suspended by decision of the referee”, without specifying whether or not it will be postponed to a later date.

The kickoff had been given barely five minutes ago when representatives of the Anvisa health agency and the federal police entered the field to end the meeting.

After more than two hours spent in the locker room, the Argentines headed for the terminal to leave Brazilian territory without delay.

In addition, Zack Steffen, the substitute goalkeeper of Manchester City, will miss the next two matches of the American team in qualifying for the World Cup-2022 after being tested positive for Covid-19, announced Sunday the American federation (US Soccer). .

– Iraq: few foreigners allowed for an important pilgrimage –

Iraq will only allow 40,000 foreigners, including 30,000 Iranians, to participate in the Shiite pilgrimage from Arbain at the end of September to the holy city of Kerbala, due to the pandemic, health authorities announced on Sunday.

Before the pandemic, millions of Shia pilgrims flocked to Kerbala in central Iraq every year to mark the end of 40 days of mourning for Imam Hussein, the third Imam of Shia Muslims, who died in 680.

– France: no vaccination for children under 12 for the moment –

The French director general of health Jérôme Salomon ruled out on Sunday the hypothesis of a vaccination of children under 12 years old, for the moment.

“We are not at all with the vaccination of children (under 12 years: editor’s note), for many reasons: because we lack scientific data, then because studies are in progress”, a he declared on BFMTV.

– More than 4.56 million dead –

The pandemic has killed more than 4.56 million people worldwide since the end of December 2019, out of more than 220 million confirmed infections, according to a report established by AFP on Sunday at 10 a.m. GMT.

The United States is the country with the most deaths (648,467), ahead of Brazil (583,628) and India (440,533).

The WHO estimates, taking into account the excess mortality directly and indirectly linked to Covid-19, that the results of the pandemic could be two to three times higher than that officially established.