World Coronavirus in Hauts-de-France: Significant increase in deaths since early September

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Boris Johnson is poised to announce up to a week of freedom from COVID-19 restrictions at Christmas - but tough rules will remain in force in England after the national lockdown ends on 2 December. The aim - subject to agreement from the governments of Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland - is for a UK-wide relaxation of rules, reportedly from 22 to 28 December, so that several families can join in one "bubble".It is also likely that, under the "four nations" plan, families will be allowed to attend Christmas church services and that pubs and restaurants may be able to open for a limited period over the holiday period.

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France reports its lowest daily coronavirus death toll since late March. The French team looked at people admitted to the hospital with flu-like illness between December 2 and January 16 who were not ultimately diagnosed with influenza. They tested frozen samples from those patients for coronavirus .

The Hauts-de-France region, and particularly the Nord department, recorded a much greater number of deaths than in 2019 at the same period

© C. Allain / 20 Minutes The number of deaths has jumped in the North (illustration). EPIDEMIC - The Hauts-de-France region, and particularly the Nord department, recorded a much higher number of deaths than in 2019 during the same period

Cyclical excess mortality. According to INSEE, the number of deaths increased sharply in Hauts-de-France between September 1 and November 16, compared with the figures recorded in 2019 at the same period. While no department is spared by this sad observation, some are paying a higher price than others to the coronavirus pandemic .

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Since Memorial Day, the number of coronavirus hospitalizations has gone up in at least a dozen states, according to data CNN aggregated from the Covid Tracking Project between May 25 to June 9. Overall, the new data mark an increase in several states that began in the past couple weeks.

France reported 135 deaths ; Spain's 164 were the lowest since mid-March; and Italy's 174 was a two-month low. Yves Cohen told broadcaster BFMTV that his team had revisited negative tests for flu and other coronaviruses on 24 patients who had been in hospital with respiratory symptoms in December

Between September 1 and November 16, 12,767 deaths were recorded in Hauts-de-France. Compared with the same period in 2019, this corresponds to an increase of 16%. In the first two weeks of November, the increase in the number of deaths even climbs to + 26%. Statistics which are only higher in two other French regions, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes (+ 34%) and Provence-Alpes-Côte d´Azur (+ 21%).

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The vast majority of additional deaths are linked to the coronavirus

It is the North which is most affected by this excess mortality with 1,049 additional deaths, an increase of 23%. Among the other departments in the region, Aisne "remains relatively spared," notes INSEE, with an increase of 4% all the same.

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Tough COVID-19 restrictions imposed before England's second lockdown were not strong enough, the health secretary has told MPs. Matt Hancock said the beefed-up coronavirus tiers unveiled by Boris Johnson are "better-calibrated" than what was in place before the shutdown.He told a joint session of the health and social care and science and technology committees that the original Tier 3 measures in place in September and October were not "strong enough to get the R below one, and therefore cases falling".

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Coronavirus counter with new cases, deaths , and number of tests per 1 Million population. 12,459 new cases and 581 new deaths in France . French Government reported 957 new deaths , of Since the validation process takes time to complete, cases are expected to be revised retroactively once the

The figures given by INSEE take into account "all-cause" deaths. However, it is essentially the coronavirus epidemic that is at the origin of this increase in mortality. Of the 1,782 additional deaths in the region, 1,116 are directly attributable to Covid-19 according to statistics from Public Health France . Insee also specifies that it is the 75-84 age group that is most affected.

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