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- The police are setting up this Friday, reinforced controls to enforce the containment measures and dissuade the French from leaving for the spring holidays.
- In France, 4,503 people died of the coronavirus, according to the latest report from the authorities, including 471 in the past 24 hours.
- At least 884 people have died in nursing homes since the start of the health crisis.
- The United States has nearly 1,200 additional deaths in 24 hours.
- The world has passed the milestone of one million people tested positive for coronavirus and Europe is the continent most affected.
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6:45 a.m. 60,000 soldiers mobilized to carry out checks. Beyond the police force, the National Gendarmerie affirms that approximately 60,000 soldiers are mobilized to ensure the controls, and underlines that in Ile-de-France, seven squadrons of mobile gendarmerie and three helicopters arrive in reinforcement.
6:35 a.m. Reinforced controls on the roads. The police are putting in place, as of this Friday, reinforced controls to enforce the containment measures and dissuade the French from leaving for the spring holidays.
"Our goal is to dissuade departures on vacation, with reinforced controls from major cities, in stations, on roads and in tourist places", said this Friday Christophe Castaner, the Minister of the Interior, in our columns.
6:30 am. The United States has nearly 1,200 additional deaths in 24 hours. With 1,169 new deaths registered in 24 hours, according to figures from Johns Hopkins University which refers, the total number of deaths since the start of the pandemic in the United States is now 5,926.
It is the worst 24-hour record ever in a country.
6:25 a.m. More than a million people infected. The world has passed the milestone of one million people tested positive for coronavirus and Europe is the continent most affected.
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