[EN DIRECT] All developments in the COVID-19 pandemic

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.

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PLANETARY

Case: 75 051 016

Deaths: 1,664,344

CANADA

Case: 486 393, 171 028 in Quebec

Death: 13 865, 7635 in Quebec

ALL THE NEWS FOR FRIDAY, DECEMBER 18

6:22 am | Spain will start vaccinating on December 27

Spain will begin its COVID-19 vaccination campaign on Sunday December 27, the day after the arrival of the first doses in the country, Health Minister Salvador Illa announced on Friday.

The announcement comes the day after that of the President of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, who indicated on Thursday that vaccination would begin in the EU between 27 and 29 December.

5h51 | Can immunity to the virus last over the long term?

Two Canadian research teams have observed in their initial observations that patients infected with COVID-19 do indeed develop immunity to the virus, but not necessarily in the long term.

3h12 | Do you say “the” or “the Covid-19”? The word of the year, a mutant name for disease dubbed by international officials, cannot decide in French between male and female.

1h04 | Stress, exacerbated inequalities, nine months of academic upheaval with uncertain effects

1h | Workers are still denied telework for arbitrary reasons when it is supposed to be mandatory.

0h | The air quality debate is skewed, says Roberge