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- 427 people have died in France from the new coronavirus in the past 24 hours. The death toll stands at 24,087 since the start of the epidemic.
- After the debate in the National Assembly, discussions with the prefects and local elected officials, Édouard Philippe consults the social partners on deconfinement this Thursday ... Find our answers to your questions after the government announcements.
- The World Health Organization (WHO) is meeting this Thursday for the third time, and under fire from critics, its emergency committee to discuss the inexorable advance of the pandemic, which has killed nearly 225,000 people.
- The United States has recorded in the past 24 hours more than 2,500 additional deaths, which brings the American death toll to 60,853 in total.
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6:45 a.m. Historical fall in CO2 emissions in energy. Global CO2 emissions from the sector should drop by around 8% (or nearly 2.6 gigatonnes) this year, returning to their lowest level since 2010. This would be the largest decline ever recorded, six times greater than the previous decline recorded in 2009 following the global financial crisis, estimates the International Energy Agency (IEA).
6:35 a.m. The government consults this Thursday the social partners on deconfinement. Edouard Philippe, the unions and the employers will try to know how to put the French back to work to revive the economy, without setting off a second outbreak of the epidemic, feared in hospitals.
6:30 am. WHO Emergency Committee. The World Health Organization (WHO) meets this Thursday for the third time its emergency committee to discuss the inexorable advance of the pandemic which kills nearly 225,000 people.
6:25 a.m. The United States, the most affected country in the world. The United States, which has passed the milestone of one million diagnosed cases of Covid-19, alone accounts for almost a third of the cases recorded worldwide.
6:20 a.m. More than 2,500 additional deaths in the United States. After two days of slowdown, this new jump (+2,502 exactly) brings the American balance sheet to 60,853 deaths in total since the start of the pandemic.
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6.15 a.m. 427 people have died in France in the last 24 hours as a result of the Covid-19. 24,087 people have lost their lives due to the virus in the country since the start of the epidemic, including 15,053 in hospitals and 9,034 deaths in social and medico-social establishments.
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6:10 a.m. 4,207 people are still in intensive care in hospitals. The resuscitation balance, which takes into account discharges, continues to decrease, with 180 fewer patients.
VIDEO. 2 minutes from the empty Champs-Elysées and Paris seen from the sky