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- In France, 5,532 people died of coronavirus in hospitals, according to the latest report from the authorities, including 441 in the past 24 hours.
- There are now a total of more than 7,560 dead in France with at least 2,028 people who have died in nursing homes since the start of the health crisis.
- Evacuations to relieve hospitals in Ile-de-France are continuing, as are road checks and in stations to prevent confined people from going on vacation.
- The United States records the most new deaths in 24 hours with 1,399 additional victims. President Trump warns that the country is entering "a period that is going to be truly horrible."
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7.52 a.m. Dead on the streets in Ecuador. Ecuadorian Vice President Otto Sonnenholzner apologizes for the situation in the city of Guayaquil, hit by the coronavirus pandemic, where videos have shown corpses in the streets.
Around the middle of this week, soldiers and police came to remove 150 bodies from homes in Guayaquil, the most populous city in Ecuador, on the Pacific coast, and the most affected by the disease.
7:50 a.m. Unpublished Easter pilgrimage to Lourdes, without worshipers. While the pilgrimage season was due to open this weekend, Lourdes is getting ready to experience an unprecedented Easter week, without devotees. The highlights of this Easter week's celebrations will however be broadcast live by TV Lourdes, the chain of sanctuaries, whose audience has surged since the start of the pandemic.
Usually teeming with believers during this period, which kicks off seven months of pilgrimages, the Marian city and its Cave, where, according to Catholic tradition, the Virgin Mary appeared to Berdanette Soubirous in 1858, are today now deserted.
7.40 a.m. New transfers of patients from Ile-de-France this Sunday. Evacuations to relieve hospitals in Ile-de-France continue this Sunday aboard two medical trains to Brittany. “The first train will transport patients to Vannes, Lorient and Quimper. The second train will allow the transfer of patients distributed between Rennes, Saint-Malo, Morlaix and Brest ”, specifies the Regional Health Agency.
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7:35 a.m. President Trump's alarmist message. The United States records the most new deaths in 24 hours with 1,399 additional victims. President Trump warns that the country is entering "a period that is going to be really horrible", with "very bad figures".
7:30 a.m. The pandemic continues to ravage the world. The coronavirus has claimed at least 63,437 deaths since its appearance in December in China, including more than 46,000 in Europe, the continent most affected.
7:25 a.m. 441 new deaths in France. These new deaths bring the number of Covid-19 patients to 7,560.
Coronavirus in France: 441 new deaths in hospital, more than 7,500 deaths in total
Of these 7,560 patients, 5,532 people died in hospital and 2,028 died in nursing homes.
7.20am. 300,000 cases identified in the United States, according to the count of the American Johns Hopkins University. The country now officially has more than 8,000 dead. The milestone of 200,000 cases identified in the country had been crossed Wednesday.
7 hours. Hello and welcome to this live, where we will follow all the events related to the coronavirus in France and in the world this Sunday.