You will find here all the news throughout the day related to this crisis which has hit the population, governments and the economy for several months.
LAST REVIEW
PLANETARY
Case: 60 527 292
Death: 1,423,988
CANADA
Case: 350 408, 136 894 in Quebec
Death : 11,763 deaths, 6,947 in Quebec
ALL NEWS FOR NOVEMBER 26, 2020
12:23 | Nearly 99% of England’s 56 million people will continue to live under strict restrictions after the lockdown ends in early December, the British government said Thursday, detailing its local strategy against the pandemic.
11:56 am | The Parti Québécois urges the Legault government to put down on paper the “moral contract” proposed to Quebecers to allow gatherings for four days during the holiday season.
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Pascal Berube
11:59 am | The situation continues to degenerate in the Saguenay-Lac-Saint-Jean region, as 211 new cases of COVID-19 have been confirmed in the last 24 hours, for a total of 4,725 people affected since the start of the health crisis.
11:59 am | The vaccine against the COVID-19 disease developed by the British laboratory AstraZeneca and the University of Oxford requires “further study”, the group’s chief executive said Thursday after criticism of the reliability announced.
11:54 am | Health Minister Christian Dubé has indicated that 200,000 or even 300,000 Quebecers will be able to be vaccinated against COVID-19 every week, when the campaign is in full swing. Is this number realistic?
11:39 am | An American doctor who wants to raise awareness of the importance of barrier measures, such as wearing a mask, has produced a video in which he shows the last thing a person seriously ill with COVID sees before dying.
11:03 am | Quebec has recorded its highest number of daily cases since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic with 1,464 infections to which are added 32 deaths.
9:24 am | COVID-19: La Francophonie launches a solidarity fund for women.
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Louise Mushikiwabo, Secretary General of the International Organization of La Francophonie
8:13 am | Thousands of Pakistanis are testing a Chinese vaccine against the coronavirus.
Thousands of Pakistanis volunteers to test a Chinese vaccine against COVID-19 pending approval have already been inoculated, official sources said on Wednesday.
Some 7,000 people out of the 10,000 expected participants received the vaccine, developed by Chinese laboratory CanSinoBio and the Chinese Institute of Biotechnology in Beijing, officials of the vaccination campaign said.
“I have volunteered for a noble cause that will help humanity,” a volunteer at Shifa Hospital in Islamabad, where vaccinated people receive $ 50 for their health, told AFP on condition of anonymity. hardly.
“Others should volunteer and participate in this noble cause that will save lives,” he added.
Ejaz Ahmad Khan, the researcher in charge of supervising the trials in Pakistan, told AFP that the first results on the effectiveness of the vaccine were expected “in the next two or three months”.
The search for a vaccine accelerated this month, with four manufacturers announcing that their vaccine was effective: the US-German alliance Pfizer / BioNTech, US laboratory Moderna, UK AstraZeneca / University of Oxford alliance and the Russians from the Gamaleïa State Institute.
The latest official figures show more than 382,000 people infected with the new coronavirus for more than 7,800 deaths in Pakistan. Although many experts believe they are actually much higher due to the limited number of tests, these statistics remain rather low for a country of nearly 220 million people.
7:28 am | A hotel worker in British Columbia suffered a heart attack last week following an altercation with an anti-mask that spat in her face.
7:24 am | Two studies underway are looking to determine whether healthcare workers are at higher risk of contracting COVID-19.
6:44 am | Disney projects a total of 32,000 jobs lost in the first half of 2021.
The Disney group plans to cut a total of 32,000 jobs in its amusement park-related activities by the end of the first half of 2021, due to the impact of COVID-19, when it had reported in September of 28,000 jobs cut in the United States.
In its annual report delivered Wednesday to the American Constable of the Stock Exchange (SEC, Security and Exchange Commission), the American giant indicates that it employed some 203,000 people in the world at the end of October, including 155,000 for activities directly related to the parks attraction.
In September, Disney announced the loss of 28,000 jobs in the United States in connection with the pandemic, which has resulted in the closure of amusement parks or their very limited operation.
“In total, around 32,000 employees will see their contracts terminate in the first half of 2021,” writes the world’s number one entertainment company in its annual report.
It highlights “the current climate, including the impacts due to Covid-19, and the changing environment in which we operate”.
The group includes Disneyland in California, the second most visited amusement park in the world, behind Disney World in Orlando (Florida), as well as other Disney parks in Asia or in Paris. The little mouse usually attracts tens of millions of tourists each year to these parks.
6:41 am | The U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday banned the governor of New York state from imposing restrictions on places of worship due to the coronavirus outbreak, in a ruling seen as a defense of freedom of worship.
6:33 am | Between megalopolises, shanty towns, mountains, tropical forests or deserts, Latin America is a huge disparate whole where mass vaccination against COVID-19 poses many challenges, amplified by the economic crisis.
5:28 am | Russia on Thursday recorded new records of contamination and daily deaths from the coronavirus, a week after exceeding the threshold of two million patients.
3h25 | A motorized demonstration will mobilize thousands of vehicles on Quebec’s highways on Saturday to denounce health measures against COVID-19.
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Vehicles will converge in convoy on the National Assembly in Quebec
0h45 | South Korea on Thursday reported nearly 600 new cases of coronavirus over 24 hours, the highest number of contaminations since March, a resurgence that raises fears of a third epidemic wave in the country.
0h27 | In Sweden, the shadow of a fiasco hangs over new vaccines against COVID-19.
0h26 | Could disinformation, on an unprecedented scale in 2020, hinder future vaccination campaigns against COVID-19? While confidence in institutions is already largely damaged, this possibility worries doctors and authorities.
0h00 | Half of all the jobs lost in Quebec over the past year were among 15-24 year olds, a group that nevertheless represents 13.2% of the working population.