The number of contaminations is on the rise again, causing concern. Follow all the news related to Covid-19 in France and around the world.
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The Chinese authorities have imposed confinement in Lanzhou (northwest), which has four million inhabitants, due to a rebound in Covid-19 cases, a hundred days before the Beijing Winter Olympics. All living quarters in this city will be subject to “closed management” with strict movement control, the municipality announced, while China on Tuesday recorded 29 cases of local Covid infections.
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Hong Kong will further tighten its entry restrictions, already among the strictest in the world, to align with China in the fight against Covid-19, the territory’s leader, Carrie Lam, announced on Tuesday.
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American experts are due to examine Pfizer’s Covid-19 vaccine for 5 to 11 year olds on Tuesday and, save surprise, pave the way for the very imminent vaccination of some 28 million children in the United States.