The timeline
France, the red zones increase: from tomorrow maximum alert in Toulouse and Montpellier
Toulouse and Montpellier from Tuesday 13 October will become, like most of the main French cities, a maximum alert zone. Saturday it was the turn of Lyon, Grenoble, Saint Etienne e Small as already happened a Paris e Aix-Marseille, as well as Guadeloupe. Nationally, epidemic indicators further deteriorated in twenty-four hours, with a further increase in ICU admissions and over 16,000 new positive cases, according to data released Sunday by Public Health France.
Intensive care admissions totaled 1,483 patients on Sunday, a record since May. Since the outbreak began, more than 32,500 deaths have been recorded in France.
The zone of maximum alert is reached when the incidence rate in the general population exceeds 250 new cases per 100 thousand inhabitants in the last seven days, when it exceeds 100 in the over 65s and if the occupancy rate of the beds in the intensive care units of the Covid-19 patients reached 30% in the region. This is in particular the closure of bars and sports halls, a reinforced protocol in restaurants or even narrow gauge in university amphitheaters and shopping centers.
The French premier Jean Castex: “You can’t give up”, he told the microphones of France Info, announcing a new version of the application StopCovid, French equivalent of Immune, for 22 October. “The French – he said today – considered too soon that this virus had disappeared”. “The reality – he warned – is that the second wave is here and we cannot give up”. The premier then stressed that a “generalized lockdown must be avoided by all means”
The Minister of Health, Olivier Véran, had already warned Thursday that Toulouse, the fourth largest city in France, and Montpellier, “which have worrying epidemic characteristics”, would be placed in the red zone.
In the Hérault, the 31 municipalities of the metropolis of Montpellier are also on maximum alert as well as the seven adjacent municipalities, announced the prefecture. On Friday the University Hospital (CHU) of Montpellier announced the deprogramming of part of its operational activities “to cope with the influx of patients affected by Covid-19”. The hospital center has a total of 76 beds dedicated to Covid-19 patients. In its latest bulletin published on Friday, the regional health agency (ARS) Occitanie reported 157 admissions (including 47 in intensive care) in Hérault and 145 (including 40 in intensive care) in Haute-Garonne.
Extended measures in Marseille
In Aix-Marseille, all these measures are being renewed for another fifteen days, or until 27 October, the prefect of Bouches-du-Rhône announced Sunday evening. According to the regional health authorities (ARS PACA) after two weeks of decline at the end of September: “The current situation no longer shows an improvement but has stopped, stable flat line”.
Polynesia, positive president: two days earlier he had seen Macron
Two days after meeting Emmanuel Macron in Paris, the president of French Polynesia, Edouard Fritch, tested positive for Covid-19 on his return to Tahiti, announced a press release from his communications service on Sunday. “The president, Edouard Fritch, has been declared positive for Covid-19 on his return from Paris,” the statement read. “As a precaution and protective measure, his partner, who traveled with him, has also been tested and is negative.” Fritch (68) met with President Macron on Thursday.
Covid, the president of Polynesia is positive: on Thursday he was with Macron
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Greece, record deaths: new measures are underway
Greek health authorities have announced a daily record of 13 deaths from Covid-19, along with 280 new confirmed cases of infections. The total number of confirmed infections in the country since the beginning of the pandemic has risen to over 22 thousand, with 449 deaths. New restrictions on the number of people admitted to restaurants, museums and archaeological sites are now being imposed in Athens and in various regions of Greece, where the incidence of new cases is considered particularly high.
Spain, tightened restrictions in Catalonia and Navarre
The announcement on Sunday in an attempt to curb an increase in infections. From Tuesday the meetings will be limited to six people in Navarre, while bars and restaurants will close at 22. Cinemas, theaters and bookshops will have to reduce their presence to 30% and supermarkets to 40%. In Catalonia, authorities have called on companies to encourage teleworking and universities to avoid face-to-face classes.
UK, awaiting Johnson’s announcement: “3 levels of restrictions”
The British premier Boris Johnson today will chair a meeting of the Cobra emergency committee, to “establish the final interventions” related to the coronavirus pandemic. He will then announce the findings to the House of Commons and then hold a press conference in Downing Street. At his side, the British media report, will be the Chancellor of the Exchequer Rishi Sunak and the Chief Medical Officer of England, Chris Whitty. The announcement of new restrictions with which to limit infections is expected, in a plan with three levels of local lockdown. The new measures would include the closure of pubs and restaurants in some areas of England and the Midlands, where the greatest increases in infections have been recorded, and a night stay ban is being assessed.
Usa, Trump: “I’m immune”. Twitter censors it
The president of the United States Donald Trump he declared on Sunday he was immune to Covid-19 and ready to defeat Biden in the final stretch of the campaign.
A total and complete sign off from White House Doctors yesterday. That means I can’t get it (immune), and can’t give it. Very nice to know!!!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) October 11, 2020
“It seems like I’m immune, but, I don’t know, maybe for a long time, maybe for a short time, maybe for a lifetime. Nobody really knows, but I’m immune,” she said. Twitter censored the post: “Violates the rules on disinformation”.
Trump: “I have become immune to Covid”. And he asks to restore the TV debate against Biden
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Fauci: “I didn’t give permission to appear in the Trump commercial”
The virologist Anthony Fauci, a member of the White House anti-coronavirus task force, expressed his disappointment at having been included in a Trump campaign ad dedicated to the ‘recovery’ of the American president from Covid-19. “In nearly fifty years of public service, I have never publicly supported any candidate,” said Fauci in a statement to the Cnn. Fauci’s ‘cameo’ appears in a 30-second election video released in Michigan which claims that Trump “is recovering from coronavius, as is America.” It includes a short passage from an interview in which it appears that the infectious praises the president’s reaction to the pandemic. “I can’t imagine anyone could do more,” Fauci says in the clip, but the words are actually an excerpt from an old March interview with Fox news, in which he spoke in general of the mobilization of the American administration.
Emergency in Japan, over 90 thousand infections
The number of infections from just exceeds 90 thousand coronavirus in Japan, a figure that includes the 700 cases recorded on the Diamond Princess, the cruise ship anchored in the bay of Yokohama in the first months of the year. According to the most recent data from national medical authorities, the total sum of deaths in the country is 1,600, with Tokyo remaining the prefecture with the highest number of infections, almost 28,000. In recent weeks the positivity in the metropolis of 14 million inhabitants has not exceeded on average 200 units per day, and the metropolitan government has lowered the alert level to 3 on a scale of 4, indicating ‘constant vigilance with the risk of a increased infections’. Currently, in Tokyo, the number of patients hospitalized in Covid-19 wards stands at just over a thousand, with 24 serious cases.
India, over 7 million cases: almost like the US
The number of coronavirus cases in India has exceeded the threshold of 7 million, a figure that is close to that reached by the United States, the country in the world most affected by the pandemic (7.7 million). The figure could actually be much higher given the much lower screening rate than elsewhere. However, the number of deaths (about 110 thousand) is lower than that of the United States (over 214 thousand). The relative youth of the Indian population, possible immunity from other diseases and the lack of an official death census may explain these figures.
Cape Verde reopens its borders
The Cape Verde archipelago off the coast of Senegal reopens its borders on Monday after more than six months of closure. Visitors will need to submit a negative PCR test to be able to board a flight to the country.
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