Whether in Quebec or elsewhere on the planet, the COVID-19 pandemic has been disrupting our lives for several months.
Here you will find all the news throughout the day related to this crisis affecting the population, governments and the economy.
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PLANETARY
Case: 29 880 475
Death: 940 932
CANADA
Case: 139 747, 65 857
Death: 9193, 5788
NEWS
10:35 am | COVID-19: Montreal revises its balance sheet upwards.
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TO READ | The difficulty in supplying drugs in times of pandemic reduces the quality of products sold on the market, thus putting consumers more at risk, warn specialists.
8:47 am | The American biotech company Moderna, one of two currently conducting a Phase 3 clinical trial in the United States for an investigational vaccine against COVID-19, released the full trial protocol on Thursday, first in respond to calls for greater transparency.
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6:35 am | More than 200 cases of COVID-19 in Lebanon’s main prison.
More than 200 cases of the new coronavirus have been identified in Lebanon’s largest prison, the head of the doctors’ union announced Thursday, calling for speeding up procedures to reduce prison overcrowding in the midst of the epidemic.
A video circulating on social media this week showed crowded cells, prisoners sleeping on the floor, against each other. In another video, an inmate carries another assuring that he has a high fever and that nothing is done to take care of him.
“More than 200 confirmed cases of new coronavirus” have been recorded in Roumieh prison, east of Beirut, the head of the doctors’ union, Charaf Abou Charaf, announced Thursday at a press conference, without specifying whether this count included also guards.
The security forces had reported last week 22 cases of COVID-19 (13 detainees and nine guards) specifying that the prisoners were transferred to a building specially equipped for patients to observe a period of quarantine.
Roumieh prison, Lebanon’s main prison, accommodates nearly 4,000 inmates, nearly three times its capacity.
6:34 am | Boris Johnson said Thursday that it was necessary to “be hard now” to contain a second wave of the new coronavirus, compared to the second “bump” of a camel, and save Christmas, dear to the British.
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6:28 am | The level of transmission of COVID-19 is “alarming” in Europe, noted Thursday the World Health Organization, which is also concerned about the shortening of quarantine decided or envisaged in several countries, including France.
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TO READ | We had to be patient again yesterday in order to undergo a screening test while citizens waited up to three hours in their car on the Fleur de Lys site in Quebec.
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5h00 | As new cases of COVID-19 are on the rise in the province and the protest movement is gaining ground, the confidence of Quebecers in the management of the crisis by the Legault government has fallen by 6% in just three months, reveals a poll.
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TO READ | The context of the pandemic and the quest for stability of many citizens may favor the re-election of a large majority of mayors in Quebec in 2021, believes pollster Jean-Marc Léger.
3h47 | WHO is launching a charter to better protect healthcare workers.
On the front line in the fight against the COVID-19 pandemic, healthcare workers are paying a high price with their health, warns the WHO on Thursday, which is launching a charter to help better protect them.
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3:04 am | The hard legal fight of families against the Chinese state.
Rejection of complaints, pressure, intimidation of lawyers: if China has successfully stemmed the COVID-19 epidemic on its soil, it is seeking to muzzle the families of victims who call it to account in court.
2h39 | El Salvador’s justice cancels the negative test required of travelers.
El Salvador’s Supreme Court of Justice overturned the government’s measure to demand a negative test for the novel coronavirus from all residents returning from abroad, which angered the head of state.
2h02 | Weakened by the health crisis, the European automobile market fell again by 18.9% in August.
The European car market, hit in the spring by the health crisis, fell again by 18.9% over one year in August, a sign of its slow and difficult recovery, according to figures released Thursday.
0h46 | Chilly tourist winter in perspective on the land of Santa Claus.
Hundreds of thousands of visitors from all over the world flock there every winter to enjoy the dog sled rides and visit the “real” Santa Claus cave: in Finnish Lapland, COVID-19 risks jeopardizing tourism, lung economy of the region.
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