The main news related to the coronavirus this Saturday, June 6:
- 46 people died in hospital in 24 hours Friday, bringing the total of deaths in France since the start of the epidemic to 29,111. Attention: for the first time in a long time, the Directorate General of Health will not communicate of epidemiological assessment this Saturday nor this Sunday.
- Phase 2 of the deconfinement, which began on Monday June 2, enters its sixth day. For the first weekend since mid-March, the French are no longer limited to 100 km if they want to travel.
- The pandemic has killed more than 390,000 people worldwide since its onset in December 2019 in China. After Europe, it is the turn of the American continents to be hit very hard.
Brazil could leave WHO, president Bolsonaro accusing him of "bias"
After the United States, Brazil? Latin American President Jair Bolsonaro on Friday threatened to withdraw his country from the World Health Organization (WHO), along with his American counterpart Donald Trump, to protest his "ideological bias" "
“I tell you here, the United States left WHO, we are thinking about it, in the future […]. Either WHO works without ideological bias, or we are leaving it too. We do not need outsiders to give their feelings about health here, ”he told reporters in Brasilia, as the country deplores more than 35,000 deaths.
Throughout the coronavirus crisis, Jair Bolsonaro imitated Donald Trump by minimizing the severity of the disease, urging him to maintain normal activity, and praising the effectiveness of a treatment that divides scientists, hydroxychloroquine.
Speaking on the latter subject, the Brazilian president said he was not surprised that a study in the medical journal The Lancet, which concluded that the treatment was useless, was strongly questioned and then withdrawn. This withdrawal prompted the WHO to resume clinical trials on the molecule. "Trump took the money away from them and they went back on everything," said Jair Bolsonaro. Before adding, visibly satisfied: "Chloroquine is back".
46 new dead in hospital in France
The Directorate General of Health announced Friday evening that Covid-19 had caused 46 new deaths in hospitals in France in 24 hours, bringing to 29,111 the total number of deaths since the start of the epidemic.
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This assessment does not include all the deaths in social and medico-social establishments, for which the last figures published date back to Tuesday and whose next update is scheduled for June 9.
1094 patients with a severe form of COVID-19 are hospitalized in intensive care, 69 fewer patients compared to Thursday.
Four regions (Ile-de-France, Grand-Est, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes and Hauts-de-France) account for 76% of patients hospitalized in intensive care.
WHO now recommends masks in case of "widespread transmission"
The World Health Organization on Friday released new guidelines for wearing a mask, and now advises it when there is widespread transmission of the new coronavirus and when it is difficult to maintain physical distance.
“Given the evolution of the data, the WHO advises governments to encourage the general public to wear masks when transmission is widespread and physical distance difficult, for example on public transport, in shops or in other places. 'other closed or very crowded environments,' said WHO boss Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus during a virtual press conference.
"Second, in areas of community transmission, we recommend that people aged 60 years or more or those suffering from pre-existing medical conditions wear a medical mask in situations where physical distancing is not possible", a- he says.
He noted that the new guidelines had been developed after examining the available data and consultations with many experts and civil society groups.
The balance of the pandemic in the world
The pandemic of the new coronavirus has killed at least 390,868 people worldwide since its appearance in December in China, according to a report established by AFP from official sources Friday at midday.
More than 6,640,290 cases of infection have been officially diagnosed in 196 countries and territories since the start of the epidemic, of which at least 2,867,400 are now considered cured.
This number of diagnosed cases, however, only reflects a fraction of the actual number of infections. Some countries only test severe cases, others use testing as a priority for tracing, and many poor countries have limited screening capacity.
The United States, which recorded its first death linked to the coronavirus in early February, is the country most affected in terms of number of deaths and cases, with 108,211 deaths for 1,872,660 cases. At least 485,002 people have been declared cured.
After the United States, the most affected countries are the United Kingdom with 39,904 deaths for 281,661 cases, Brazil with 34,021 deaths (614,941 cases), Italy with 33,689 deaths (234,013 cases), and France with 29,065 deaths (189,441 cases).
China (excluding the territories of Hong Kong and Macao), where the epidemic began at the end of December, officially counted a total of 83,027 cases (5 new between Thursday and Friday), including 4,634 deaths and 78,327 recoveries.
