The essential :
- For the 7th consecutive day, the United States has recorded more than 60,000 daily infections with the coronavirus.
- In France, with 25 deaths during the weekend, the fatal toll has reached 30,177 people since the start of the epidemic. Our newspaper looks this Tuesday on the difficulties to be tested. Meetings are hard to find.
- In Brazil, the death toll exceeds 80,000.
- After four days of a marathon summit, the European Union agreed on a plan to revive the economy, severely affected by the pandemic.
»Follow the evolution of this Tuesday, July 21 live:
9.25 am. Florida, the new epicenter of the epidemic. For the 6th day in a row, the state of the south-eastern United States has recorded more than 10,000 daily contaminations. Worried, the state teachers' union wants to sue Republican Governor Ron DeSantis, who plans to reopen schools.
9:10. If you tasted confined? Lionel and Laura Vaxelaire, dairy farmers in Saulxures-sur-Moselotte (Vosges), have created a new variety of munster because of the confinement. "Every day we made cheese without knowing what it was going to give, without having sales," Lionel told AFP. A batch of about sixty cheeses is found in a corner of the cellar, "we let it mature quietly for four weeks without intervening," he explains. Called "the confined", it is already very popular with connoisseurs.
9:03 am. 40 billion for France. France will be able to dispose of 40 billion euros in subsidies as part of the European recovery plan signed at dawn on Tuesday by the 27 EU member states, according to Bruno Le Maire.
8:54 a.m. A second wave, the “most probable” hypothesis. According to Jean-François Delfraissy, the disappearance of the virus or its chronic installation over a long period are two hypotheses less realistic than a third scenario: "a real second wave", "arriving from the south, for October, November, December", " that we will treat differently ”.
8:49 am. On rapid tests. “We do not yet know the reliability of these saliva tests compared to nasopharyngeal tests. It will evolve, I think that by the end of August we will have these tests, but for the moment we do not have them, ”explains Jean-François Delfraissy about the difficulties in France to carry out tests.
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8.45 a.m. “The epidemic has never stopped in France”. "The confinement has reduced the circulation of the virus very significantly but it has not stopped it", insists, on RMC and BFM, Jean-François Delfraissy, president of the Scientific Council. “The numbers are worrying. We are really on a ridge line, ”he warns.
8:30 am. New rules for going to China. As of today, according to the Civil Aviation Administration of China, people wishing to travel to China will have to provide negative nucleic acid test results before boarding the plane, results which will have to be completed five days ago.
8:20 am. Diary. Jean-François Delfraissy, President of the Scientific Council, is the guest of RMC and BFMTV at 8:30 am.
8:17. Romania will be able to retain its patients. The legislative vacuum that allowed thousands of Romanians infected with the new coronavirus to leave hospitals or not to be treated is coming to an end. On July 2, the country's Constitutional Court ruled that Romania could not enforce mandatory quarantine or hospital care on the basis of government decrees, and that such containment measures could only be taken by law. A fast-track procedure has enabled Parliament to pass a law, which comes into force this morning. According to data released late Monday, 972 covid-positive people were released from hospital at their request against medical advice between July 2 and July 20, and 3,680 infected people were not hospitalized at all.
8 hours. 4 sec to take his temperature on the dock. SNCF is now experimenting with its temperature measurement device. Gare de Lyon in Paris, TGV customers, on a voluntary basis, will be able to go through one of the five “health terminals” installed on the platform, upstream of the boarding gates. The temperature will be taken by thermal camera in four seconds. The idea is to "check in real conditions the fluidity of boarding of a TGV Inoui train in the event of the installation of a temperature control", SNCF explained to AFP. The value will not be displayed on the device and the data will not be stored. In the event of a temperature above 38.5 degrees, SNCF agents will be notified and will approach the traveler "once the boarding gates have been passed" to provide him with a new surgical mask, a dose of hydroalcoholic gel and remind him of the barrier gestures. .
7:50 am. Still in Australia, eight magazines are closing. The Bauer Media Australia group, recently sold to a private investment fund, is giving up publishing eight titles including Harper's Bazaar, Elle, or Men's Health. “The recovery of these titles and teams was necessarily dependent on a rebound in the advertising market and a resumption of domestic and international travel,” explained the CEO of the group.
7.40 a.m. Australia adds 10 billion in aid to employees. As an outbreak of new infections is raging in the south-east of the country-continent, Australia will add Australian $ 16.8 billion (€ 10.3 billion) to continue its wage subsidies to companies in difficulty until March 2021. One million workers will be covered, on a declining basis.
7:30 am. A hospitalized minister. Gwede Mantashe, South African Minister of Energy and Mines, was hospitalized on Monday evening. He contracted the coronavirus a week ago.
7.20 am. In airports, the bazaar. Are you about to leave or come to France? Prepare to wait. France should strengthen checks on travelers and it is already a mess. Read our article here.
7.15 a.m. A sad threshold exceeded in Brazil. According to the Ministry of Health, 80,120 people have died from the coronavirus in Brazil since the start of the epidemic.
7:10 a.m. Emergency in Florida. As of Monday, only 18% of beds available in intensive care units were left.
7 hours. In Argentina. 113 deaths were recorded in 24 hours, an unfortunately record figure. This brings the total number of deaths since the start of the pandemic to 1,373.
6:50 a.m. Pessimistic Colombia. The South American country, where more than 204,000 people have been infected, considers the presence of the virus "at least another year," according to its president Ivan Duque. The containment measures, in force since March 25, remain for the moment until August 1, despite the economic crisis they have generated. Five million jobs have been destroyed.
6:45 a.m. Tests, the big traffic jam. This nurse from Val-d'Oise goes through the tests, in Gennevilliers (Hauts-de-Seine), no time slot available before mid-September… To be tested, it's an obstacle course, particularly in Ile-de- France where the analysis labs were reminded of their mission by the ARS. Our file :
- Covid-19 screening tests: the reasons for the big traffic jam
- The obstacle course to get an appointment
- The note that calls laboratories to order
- However, demand is strong, as evidenced by the influx of the free test launched by the ARS in Villejuif (Val-de-Marne)
6:40 a.m. Africa worries WHO. The World Health Organization yesterday said it was “concerned” about the acceleration of the virus in Africa. South Africa passed 5,000 deaths on Sunday, and "may be a precursor of what will happen in the rest of Africa," warned in Geneva the head of health emergencies, Michael. Ryan.
6:35 a.m. An agreement found for the EU. The 27 countries of the Union agreed, this Tuesday at dawn, for a plan to revive the economy of 750 billion euros. To convince the “frugal” countries, the amount of subsidies has been reduced to 390 billion, instead of 500.
6.30am. And Trump proceeded to defend the mask. A sign that the Covid-19 crisis is only getting worse in the United States, despite his denials, Donald Trump has defended the wearing of a mask as a "patriotic gesture". The president will resume his regular press conferences on the epidemic this evening, as during the peak in the number of deaths last April.
6:25 am. Sad record. The United States remains the country most affected, both in terms of death (over 140,000) and cases (over 3.8 million). For the seventh day in a row, more than 60,000 new cases of coronavirus contamination in 24 hours have been recorded on American soil according to the Johns-Hopkins University count.
6:20 am. Hello and welcome to this live. We will try to take the measure of the epidemic, which is growing in Africa, particularly in South Africa, and continues to progress in Brazil and the United States.