New reports, new measures and highlights: an update on the latest developments in the Covid-19 pandemic around the world.
The situation in France
More than 1,300 people with Covid are in intensive care in France, including 103 new patients in the last 24 hours, according to official figures published on Sunday. The French public health agency reported 1,335 serious cases linked to Covid-19, or 46 more than the day before, taking into account arrivals and departures. The national capacity of resuscitation beds is around 5,000.
France recorded 12,500 new cases of contamination between Saturday and Sunday, less than the day before, with a record since the launch of large-scale tests at nearly 17,000 cases. The proportion of positive tests in relation to the tests carried out is only increasing: it reached 8.2% on Sunday, against 4.5% about a month ago.
Since the start of the health crisis in February-March, at least 32,230 people have died from Covid-19, or 32 new deaths in 24 hours. These are 6,964 people who are currently hospitalized in France for having contracted Covid-19. On average over the last seven days, 4,264 new daily hospitalizations were recorded, including 893 in intensive care.
The health authorities are investigating 1,340 outbreaks of contamination throughout the country, including 265 in nursing homes.
Faced with the progression of the epidemic, Matignon indicated Sunday evening that Paris and the three departments of the inner suburbs would be placed in the maximum alert zone, and new restrictions to be announced on Monday.
New York is reconfiguring certain neighborhoods
New York City plans to close schools, restaurants and non-essential businesses in nine neighborhoods in Brooklyn and Queens where the epidemic has been on the move for two weeks, a unique throwback for the first American metropolis to become a model of caution against the coronavirus.
“I propose to close all non-essential schools and businesses in nine neighborhoods” as of Wednesday and for at least two weeks, New York Democratic Mayor Bill de Blasio said at a press briefing Sunday. He stressed to wait for the approval of the governor of the State to confirm this decision.
“Today is unfortunately not a day of celebration (…) New Yorkers have worked hard to control Covid-19, and we are not making this proposal lightly,” said the Democratic mayor.
“But in this city, science guides our decisions, and we do what the facts tell us to do,” he added, in an implicit criticism of Donald Trump’s administration and Republicans accused of ‘have taken the virus lightly.
The situation in the world
Trump is “much better”. Treated at Walter Reed Military Hospital near Washington after testing positive for Covid-19, President Donald Trump said on Saturday he was “much better” but that the next few days would be crucial. “We are working hard to get me to fully recover. I think I will be back soon and look forward to finishing the campaign as I started it,” Mr Trump said in a four-minute video released. on Twitter. Mr. Trump “is not yet out of the woods” but the team treating him are “cautiously optimistic,” the president’s doctor said.
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The pandemic has made at least 1.034 million dead in the world since the end of December, according to a report established by AFP on Sunday at 11:00 GMT. About 35 million cases have been officially counted, of which at least 24.1 million have been cured.
The United States is the country with the most deaths (209,399), ahead of Brazil (145,987), India (101,782), Mexico (78,880) and the United Kingdom (42,317).
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