Covid-19: pressure on French hospitals continues to mount

The number of hospitalized Covid-19 patients and critical care patients has continued to increase, with more than 7,500 patients in hospital, according to figures from Public Health France. The number of Covid patients in the hospital is now 7,581, including 312 new hospitalizations in 24 hours, against 7,409 the day before and 6,843 last Sunday. Critical care services, which receive the most seriously ill patients, had 1,137 patients on Sunday (including 69 admissions in 24 hours), compared to 1,099 on Saturday and 886 a week ago. This indicator had fallen below the threshold of 1,000 on July 7, before starting a slow recovery. 19,600 new cases of contamination were also recorded sunday, against 23,471 Saturday and 16,167 last Sunday. The positivity rate remains stable at 4.3%.

More than 700 migrants rescued over the weekend in the Mediterranean

More than 700 migrants trying to cross the Mediterranean in makeshift boats were rescued over the weekend, including off Malta and Libya, according to the NGO SOS Méditerranée. Since Saturday, six rescues have been carried out in international waters, the last of which, Sunday afternoon, rescued 106 people in an overcrowded boat off Malta, announced the European NGO SOS Méditerranée headquartered in Marseille. The boat in distress had been spotted by the ship of the German NGO Sea-Watch. This operation came just hours after the Ocean Viking as well as the boats of Sea-Watch and the German NGO ResQship came to the aid in the night from Saturday to Sunday to more than 400 people in distress in the central Mediterranean. This particularly "perilous" rescue, which lasted until the early morning, made it possible to rescue people in a large wooden boat that was taking on water, a spokeswoman for SOS Méditerranée told AFP.

Political agitation in the United States to avoid mass expulsions

US politicians were trying sunday to avoid mass evictions of several million financially distressed Americans, after the expiration of a moratorium that protected them.  More than 10 million people in the United States are late on paying their rent , calculated the CBPP, an independent research institute. And some 3.6 million tenants estimate they are at risk of being evicted within two months, according to a statistics office study of 51 million tenants in early July. It was Saturday at midnight that expired a truce of evictions, decided nearly a year ago for health reasons related to the Covid-19 pandemic, and several times renewed.

IN BRIEF

The American Raven Saunders, Olympic runner-up in the shot put on Sunday, celebrated her silver medal on the podium of the 2020 Olympics by forming with her arms an X, a message to oppressed people according to the American press.

Foot: Eight-time defending champions, Paris SG let slip the Champions Trophy against Lille (1-0), Sunday in Tel Aviv, a defeat that is stained in view of its immense ambitions.

F1/He also holds his moment of glory: Esteban Ocon (Alpine), after Pierre Gasly in 2020, won the first Grand Prix of his career at the age of 24, only the second of the twenty-first century for a Frenchman, after an incredible race in Hungary.