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Direct. Coronavirus: the army as a reinforcement in the face of "difficult days", more than 1,300 dead in France

2020-03-26T06:24:22.947Z


Army and volunteers called in reinforcement, first evacuation of patients from the East by medicalized TGV… The mobilization intensifies in France


  • Emmanuel Macron promised a "massive plan" for the hospital after the crisis.
  • More than 100,000 people have signed up for the “I want to help” platform, including 40,000 for the health reserve.
  • A third of the inhabitants of the planet are confined while this epidemic after the death of 20,600 Covid-19 patients worldwide since December.
  • The number of people affected by the coronavirus now approaches half a million people. "The coronavirus threatens all of humanity," according to the UN.

»> Developments live

7 hours. All international flights suspended in Russia. The Russian government has announced plans to suspend all scheduled and specially chartered flights to and from Russia from Friday. Russian airlines will still be able to fly abroad to repatriate locals.

6:45 a.m. Chile quarantines Santiago. Chile, where the threshold of a thousand cases of contamination with the new coronavirus has been crossed has announced the placing in quarantine of a large part of its capital. This confinement will take effect this evening and will be applied for a period of seven days.

6:35 a.m. Tests multiplied by five in Belgium. The country wants to increase its screening capacity for Covid-19 disease to 10,000 tests per day, up from around 2,000 currently.

6:30 am. No new cases in China. China has not registered any new cases of local coronavirus contamination, but health authorities have reported an additional 67 imported cases. Six deaths were also recorded, including five in the city of Wuhan, the cradle of the epidemic in China. Sign of this improvement: some airports and stations in the province have reopened. But the schools remain closed for the time being.

6:20 a.m. No work on Sunday for employees of the large distribution. According to our information, the FGTA-FO calls the employees of the large distribution to stay at home Sunday March 29. "Some supermarket chains are still hesitant to close on Sunday because they want to recover even more turnover," said the union, adding: "in a context of increased workload and lack of staff, make the workers work employees on Sunday makes no sense and increases the danger of contamination. "

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6.15 a.m. "Historical Plan" for the United States. The United States Senate has unanimously approved a "historic" plan of $ 2,000 billion to support the world's largest economy, asphyxiated by the coronavirus pandemic that has already killed more than 1,000 people in the United States. This text includes about 500 billion in loans and aid for key companies and sectors, including nearly 30 billion in aid to the air sector (passengers and freight), but also the sending of direct aid to the Americans, up to $ 1,200 per adult and $ 500 per child, for households earning less than $ 150,000 per year. $ 100 billion is also being mobilized for hospitals.

6:10 a.m. A medicalized TGV for evacuations. Arrived in Strasbourg, must evacuate today to hospitals in the Pays de la Loire twenty patients infected with the coronavirus in order to relieve the completely saturated Alsatian hospitals.

6 hours. Launch of Operation Resilience. Emmanuel Macron announced Wednesday in Mulhouse the launch of Operation Resilience which will mobilize the armed forces to help the population in the face of the pandemic. Distinct from the Sentinel system which mobilizes up to 7,000 soldiers daily against terrorist risk, this new operation "will be entirely devoted to helping and supporting the populations, as well as supporting public services to cope with the epidemic, in mainland France and overseas, "he said.

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