No deaths, 233 new cases of contamination and 114 recoveries were confirmed in the Kingdom on June 5 and 6, 2022. The still active cases amount to 2,644, while more than 6.45 people received the third dose. Monitoring the pandemic, in figures.
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In the Maghreb, Algeria does not communicate the number of screening tests, which suggests that the number of contaminations is much higher than the official figures. The last assessment stopped reports a case of contamination. The country totals 265,897 cases of contamination, including 6,875 deaths and 178,421 recoveries.
In Tunisia, 510 new cases of contamination and 662 recoveries have been recorded, according to the latest report available. The country has totaled 1,042,872 cases of contamination, including 28,641 deaths and 1,028,885 recoveries since March 2020.
In Mauritania, 9 cases of contamination have been recorded, according to the latest report available. The country has recorded 58,183 cases of Covid-19 contamination, including 982 deaths and 57,958 recoveries.
The city of Beijing announced on Sunday the lifting of numerous anti-Covid restrictions, after a month of fear of confinement for the 22 million inhabitants of the Chinese capital.
The metropolis faced an epidemic rebound of Covid-19 at the end of April, which exceeded 1,900 positive cases, a high figure for China which applies a strict zero Covid policy.
To curb the contagion, schools, non-essential businesses and public places closed in early May, while restaurants could only sell take-out. The inhabitants, tested daily or almost, were encouraged to work from home.
The US Medicines Agency (FDA) expressed concern on Friday about a risk of myocarditis potentially linked to the Novavax Covid-19 vaccine, before a meeting of experts to decide next week on the authorization of this remedy in the United States. The Novavax vaccine is already authorized in other countries, particularly in Europe.
In the United States, an independent committee convened at the request of the FDA is to meet on Tuesday to evaluate the data from the clinical trials of Novavax and give its recommendation. Upstream, the agency published a long document on Friday analyzing these results, as it had done for the three other vaccines already authorized in the country.
Novavax’s vaccine was found to be 90% effective against symptomatic cases of the disease in trials conducted before the Omicron variant emerged, according to the FDA. But six cases of myocarditis, inflammation of the heart muscle, were detected in the group that received the vaccine, against one case in the placebo group, the agency pointed out. Five cases occurred within two weeks of vaccination.
The Covid-19 epidemic has started to rebound in France in recent days with a resumption of contamination, even if it is premature to worry about serious consequences in terms of deaths and hospitalizations, the agency summarized on Friday. of public health.
For the past few days, “we have already seen a slight increase (…) in viral circulation” of the coronavirus, declared at a press conference Guillaume Spaccaferri, epidemiologist at Public Health France.
He nevertheless underlined “the absence of hospital impact”, even if it is still early to assess this.
The number of Covid cases had been declining steadily for two months, after having reached two successive peaks in recent months, against a backdrop of the rise of the Omicron variant, one in January and the other at the very beginning of spring.
But the epidemic has started to progress again for a few days. The seven-day average of cases, an indicator that smooths out abnormal variations, has been rising since Monday and now stands at around 20,000 new daily cases.
The pandemic has officially killed at least 6,320,161 people worldwide since the end of December 2019, according to a report established by AFP.
The United States is the country with the most deaths (1,033,571), ahead of Brazil (667,044), India (524,692) and Russia (379,520).
The World Health Organization (WHO) estimates, taking into account the excess mortality directly and indirectly linked to Covid-19, that the toll of the pandemic could be two to three times higher than that officially established.