The essential :
- At least 640,778 cases of coronavirus infection, including more than 30,000 deaths, have been officially reported in 183 countries and territories since the onset of the pandemic in China in December.
- In France, 319 patients died in hospital, bringing the number of Covid-19 victims to 2,314.
- The latest assessment in France brings the number of confirmed cases in the country to 37,575. 17,620 patients are hospitalized (+ 1888) including 4273 in intensive care.
- While Olivier Véran announced the order for "a billion masks", patient evacuations continue in overwhelmed hospitals.
>> Follow the events of the day for this Sunday, March 29:
7.45 a.m. NBA: the boss of the New York Knicks tested positive. American businessman and owner of the New York Knicks basketball team, James Dolan, tested positive for coronavirus, the first boss of a prominent American sports team to be infected.
7:31 a.m. Justin Trudeau's wife healed. Sophie Grégoire Trudeau, wife of the Prime Minister of Canada, announces that she has been cured of the coronavirus that had forced Justin Trudeau into isolation for two weeks. "I feel so much better. I received a positive report from my doctor "and from the Ottawa public health services," she said in a Facebook message.
7:22 a.m. Hundreds of European tourists evacuated from Bolivia and Nicaragua. A group of 400 European nationals left the Bolivian airport of Santa Cruz for Paris on Saturday, on a charter flight chartered by the European Union. It was mainly composed of French according to the French embassy, but also of Spanish, Belgian, Dutch, Polish and British.
In Central America, around 250 European tourists stranded in Nicaragua have been evacuated to Germany on a special flight chartered by Berlin with EU support. The tourists, half of them Germans, "were stranded in Nicaragua because of the interruption of commercial air traffic in the world", explains the German embassy.
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7.15 a.m. Trump has given up on placing New York State in quarantine. President Donald Trump announces that he is finally giving up quarantining the states of New York, New Jersey and Connecticut, after having raised this possibility earlier today. These announcements had aroused great emotion in the New York region, whose political leaders had been taken by surprise.
7:10 a.m. 2,314 deaths in France. In the past 24 hours, 319 patients have died in hospital, bringing the number of Covid-19 victims in France to 2,314. According to this latest assessment, which estimates the number of confirmed cases in the country at 37,575, 17,620 patients are hospitalized (+ 1,888) including 4,273 in intensive care, a new influx of 486 people in a single day. And 6,624 were able to return home, including 926 in the past 24 hours.
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