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- In France, 16 new patients have died from the new coronavirus in the past 24 hours. The total number of deaths from the virus since the epidemic began in March has now reached 29,633.
- The government has announced an acceleration of deconfinement for the summer and the French will notably be able to resume team sports and go to the movies on Monday and return to the stadium from July 11.
- More than two million cases of Covid-19 have been recorded in Latin America and the Caribbean, half of them in Brazil where the new coronavirus has killed nearly 50,000 people.
- The pandemic has killed at least 461,230 people worldwide since China officially reported the disease in December.
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7.45 p.m. In the Netherlands, clashes at the end of an anti-containment demonstration . Dutch police charge on horseback, use water cannons and arrest dozens of people in The Hague. Several hundred people had gathered in the city center to protest against these measures, including that advocating a distance of 1.5 meters between people in places welcoming the public.
7:35 p.m. In Melun (Seine-et-Marne), Tété sings for caregivers ... and patients . "King Simili", "Persona Non Grata", "Madeleine Bas de laine", "The Sorrow Song", "In the favor of autumn" ... The tubes resounded on the forecourt of the South Island Hospital Group- de-France this afternoon. The singer came to offer a half-hour mini-concert, at the invitation of the Ministry of Culture. We were there.
7.20 p.m. Movie theaters reopen on Monday, here are our favorites. The cinemas finally reopen this Monday, with around forty films on display. Here is our selection among the novelties.
19 hours. Crowds at the Canal Saint-Martin for the Fête de la Musique. Many Parisians -2000 according to an AFP journalist- gathered this Sunday around the square Villemin, near the Canal Saint-Martin, in the 10th arrondissement of the capital, to listen to DJs come to settle in the park .
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VIDEO. Paris: hundreds of people dance on the Saint-Martin canal
6:55 p.m. Reopening of the Franco-Spanish border: “We missed it! " Closed for nearly three months, the border between France and Spain reopened Sunday. Satisfaction for French people used to shopping at their Spanish neighbors.
VIDEO. Reopening of the Franco-Spanish border: “We missed it! "
6.45 p.m. China suspends imports of an American brand of chickens. As part of the fight against coronavirus, Beijing has suspended imports of an American brand of chickens and ordered the closure of a PepsiCo brand factory in Beijing. Imports of the Tyson Foods brand are "temporarily suspended", said the general administration of customs, after the virus was detected in an American factory of the group. The brand's products already arrived in China will be seized.
6:20 p.m. "A recovery that will not be normal everywhere": back to school this Monday. This Monday, class resumes full time for schoolchildren and college students. But not quite as usual however. Explanations.
5:55 p.m. The Paris metro is finally completely unconfigured. The last 17 metro stations closed during containment reopen on Monday morning. A relief for traders and residents.
5.30 p.m. For some the school will be truant on Monday. School is scheduled to resume Monday for all children, as announced by Emmanuel Macron in his speech Sunday, June 14. Some parents refuse, for health or practical reasons.
5.10 p.m. In Moselle, a rave party brings together 80 people despite the prohibitions. The police intervened to separate the small crowd of dancers, while public gatherings of more than 10 people are prohibited. The organizer risks a fine of up to 450 euros for noise and a fine of up to 750 euros for non-compliance with the gathering rules.
4:50 p.m. At PSG, training resumes Thursday "in small groups". The players, still engaged in the Champions League and qualified for the finals of the national cups, will resume training Thursday "in small groups", after three days of testing, announced this Sunday the club champion of France. They "will have the right to medical and physical tests from Monday to Wednesday, before being able to tread the lawns of the Ooredoo Center again on Thursday, in small groups, for a gradual resumption of physical activity," said PSG on its site. Internet.
4:40 p.m. In Brazil, a ploy to cuddle seniors without risk. A Brazilian retirement home has installed this plastic wall, allowing residents to take their loved ones in their arms without risking being infected by Covid-19, reports CNN.
A care home for elderly people in southern Brazil has come up with a creative way to bring some love to its residents amid the coronavirus pandemic, by creating a "hug tunnel" that allows relatives to safely embrace them. https://t.co/H3dzXqoANc
- CNN International (@cnni) June 21, 20204:25 p.m. A special edition of the music festival, from a distance or on the balcony. Mobile concerts, floating stage and lots of digital technology: from Grenoble to Nantes, the Fête de la musique dimanche is organized to be “corona-compatible” with artists going to meet the public rather than the opposite to respect health rules . This year's edition is marked by the coronavirus but also by a fatal anniversary: the death a year ago of Steve Maia Caniço in Nantes during a controversial police operation at the end of an electro party.
16 hours. Why is the epidemic progressing especially in pro-Trump states? The American president, in meeting Saturday evening in Oklahoma, republican stronghold, seemed to attribute the increase in the number of new positive cases to that of the tests. Insufficient to explain a heavy trend in pro-Trump states.
3:45 p.m. In Paris, a funny back-to-school… Two weeks away from summer vacation, 130,000 primary schoolchildren and 60,000 Parisian schoolchildren resume classes this Monday morning, after three months of health crisis. How will this new school year go? We detail everything here.
3.30 p.m. Cafes and gyms reopen in Morocco.Morocco announced this Sunday a new phase of deconfinement from Thursday with the reopening of cafes, restaurants and gyms as well as the resumption of domestic tourism and interurban travel. Hotels, shopping malls and hammams will be able to reopen on Thursday. Road, rail and air transport - only for domestic flights - will resume on the same date. The beaches will once again be accessible to the public, with the "obligation to respect physical distance", however.
2:45 p.m. In Nigeria, doctors in public hospitals end their strike. Nigerian health workers ended a week-long strike on Sunday to demand better working conditions, including protective equipment against the coronavirus. The National Association of Resident Doctors (NARD), which represents about 40% of the country's doctors, launched this movement on June 15, while announcing that those caring for patients with coronavirus were exempt.
2:15 p.m. 116 deaths in Iran.The Iranian Ministry of Health announced on Sunday 116 additional deaths linked to the new coronavirus, saying the country has yet to pass the peak of the first epidemic wave.
14 hours. Contaminated Russian footballers. The match of the Russian football championship, which was to oppose Krasnodar at Dinamo Moscow on Sunday evening, has been postponed after positive tests for coronavirus among the players of the Moscow club, announced the Russian Federation.
1:45 p.m. Nearly 465,000 deaths worldwide identified. After the United States, the most affected countries are Brazil with 49,976 deaths, the United Kingdom (42,589), Italy (34,610), and France (29,633).
This assessment was carried out using data collected by AFP offices from the competent national authorities and information from the World Health Organization (WHO).
1:30 p.m. According to Valérie Pécresse, there will be 300,000 more unemployed in Ile-de-France by the end of the year. “Estimates are 300,000 more unemployed in Île-de-France by the end of the year. That means that in Île-de-France, we risk exceeding one million unemployed people, it will be a sad historic record, "declared the region president at the microphone of the Grand Jury RTL, Le Figaro, LCI.
12:50 p.m. The fear of too rapid deconfinement in Switzerland. "Over the past seven days, the number of cases has increased by 30%," said Matthias Egger, epidemiologist and head of the scientific task force, to SonntagsBlick. According to him, it is likely that the reproduction rate of the virus, which indicates how many other people infect an infected person, is again 1, or even more. The warning comes as the Swiss government, which has never instituted such strict containment as other European countries, announced a fourth step on Friday to ease restrictions imposed due to the epidemic.
11:50 a.m. No summer camp for unemployed pro footballers . The union of professional footballers will not organize this summer its traditional training course for players without a contract. He considers that he cannot "fully meet the mandatory health conditions" in the context of the coronavirus epidemic.
11:18 a.m. Iraqi football legend Ahmed Radhi dies from coronavirus . Died at the age of 56, he was one of the top scorers of the national team, with whom he scored his country's only goal in the World Cup final phase in 1986 against Belgium ( 1-2). In 1988, he was named Asian Footballer of the Year.
RIP LEGEND AHMED RADHI pic.twitter.com/c379BeCo7W
- A (@Valcorporation) June 21, 2020In 2006, he fled Iraq to Jordan, when his country was plunged into community violence following the invasion of the United States in 2003. He returned the following year for a career in politics, becoming Member of Parliament, then failing in the 2014 and 2018 elections, where he ran with the National Alliance list, a coalition of Sunni and Shiite figures.
10.54 a.m. Separated parents: "The confinement has given birth to a new dialogue". In a column in Le Parisien, Senator Hélène Conway-Mouret considers "essential that children who were deprived of one of the two parents during confinement try to make up for lost time" this summer.
10.46 a.m. “Solidarity” Hidalgo with Pécresse for Ile-de-France transport. The mayor of Paris, Anne Hidalgo, expresses her solidarity this Sunday on radio J with the ex-LR president of Ile-de-France, Valérie Pécresse, in her request to the government to fully compensate for the losses suffered by public transport. because of the coronavirus crisis. From opposing political camps, often in disagreement, the two leaders are united in this appeal to the state to reimburse the 2.6 billion hole in the Ile-de-France Mobilités fund.
10:34 a.m. The hangover of South African winegrowers. At the start of the pandemic, South Africa made the controversial decision to ban the sale of alcohol. This strategy worked: accidents and crime fell, relieving the hospitals that had to prepare for the influx of coronavirus patients. But it has had catastrophic consequences for the country's wine industry, one of the largest in the world, which employs 300,000 people and has already lost 18,000 jobs.
10:21 a.m. The limitation of the half-gauge is lifted for cinemas and theaters. Cinema and performance halls can now go beyond the recommended half-tonnage, but spectators will always be separated by a seat if they do not belong to the same group. "There was a defense council on Friday which went a little further than what we imagined in terms of the organization of cinemas as of shows, that is to say that there is more limitation of 50% of gauge, "says the minister on Europe 1.
Even if certain scenes plan to welcome the public from July, hall owners, producers and artists are mostly planning a return to school. Hit hard by the coronavirus crisis, with losses exceeding two billion euros, the live performance in France claims "a total deconfinement and without distancing", alerting to a social sinking if there is no real recovery.
9:53 a.m. Traffic resumes between France and Spain, which is reopening its border. Spain has ended the state of alert and a containment of almost 100 days to stem the epidemic of coronavirus. And the Spaniards themselves were able to leave their region to find relatives or friends whom they had not seen since March 14.
At the Perthus border post, between the French region of Occitania and Spanish Catalonia, a car passed every 2 or 3 minutes at 9:20 am, notes AFP-TV on the spot. Passages to France were more frequent than to Spain.
9.45 a.m. Inequalities in Seine-Saint-Denis. Forty personalities who signed an open letter, published on the website of the Journal du dimanche, ask Emmanuel Macron to “upgrade” public services in the popular territories affected by the health crisis, in particular Seine-Saint- Denis.
In the Ile-de-France departments, especially in Seine-Saint-Denis - the poorest department in mainland France - pre-existing disparities have served as breeding ground for the expansion of the coronavirus epidemic, causing an exponential excess mortality, had revealed a published study May 11 by the Ile-de-France Regional Health Observatory.
9:38 a.m. "To free up savings and help our businesses, let's launch the PEA Relance". In a tribune at Parisien - Today in France, Yannick Hamon, co-founder of MeilleurPlacement, and Hervé Hatt, president of the Meilleurtaux Group, plead for the French to contribute to the revival of the country's economy.
9:29 a.m. 2,000 sites to test the population in Beijing. Local authorities have opened 2,000 sites in the Chinese capital to test the population, according to the new China news agency, which indicates that 2.3 million samples have already been taken.
Xinfadi's wholesale market, Beijing's main source of fruit and vegetables, is believed to be the source of the new contamination. In particular, the virus was discovered on cutting boards used for imported salmon. More than 220 cases have been linked to the new outbreak.
9:21 a.m. 22 new cases in Beijing. Beijing on Sunday reported 22 new cases of Covid-19, while authorities are testing more than two million people to contain a new outbreak of contamination in the capital. The Beijingers had resumed an almost normal life after two months without contamination. But an epidemic rebound since last week has resulted in the confinement of neighborhoods and the screening of tens of thousands of inhabitants.
9:14 a.m. Coronavirus: distancing, mask… Have we become social awkward? How to greet each other? Speaking? Behaving at the office, at the restaurant? This is one of the unexpected effects of the epidemic: it has made us hesitant, even awkward with others. Our subject to read here.
8:59 a.m. Baseball closes its training centers in the United States. Major League Baseball (MLB) decides to close its training centers in Arizona and Florida, following a series of positive cases in major American sports.
While the NBA (basketball), the NHL (hockey) and the MLS (football) all hope to resume their seasons interrupted by the Covid-19 and that baseball is considering the best way to start its season, a series of positive cases cause some concern.
8:54 a.m. "We ask the government to increase the generosity of the French." Pierre Siquier, president of France generosités, suggests in a tribune to the Parisian that "all donations are tax-exempt at 75% this year".
8:48 a.m. Spain holds its breath. At midnight in the night from Saturday to Sunday, Spain lifted the state of alert decreed on March 14 and reopens its land border with France and its ports and airports to nationals of the European Union. Portugal will only open its border with Spain on July 1.
8:40 a.m. Hebron and Nablus curly. The Palestinian Authority announces the temporary closure of Hebron and Nablus to deal with the spread of the new coronavirus, after the identification of new cases in these two cities of the occupied West Bank.
8:34 a.m. Several municipalities under quarantine in Morocco. Several rural communities in the western province of Kenitra have been placed in quarantine. On Saturday, the roads were completely empty, as were the strawberry fields, deserted by agricultural workers (mainly women) during this late harvest period. Screening tests were carried out in the homes of residents, who were asked to leave their homes only in cases of "extreme necessity".
The appearance of these new epidemiological centers, at the moment when Morocco begins its deconfinement, arouses an avalanche of critics in the kingdom, the media pointing the finger at the precariousness of agricultural workers and the "laxity" of the authorities.
8:22 a.m. The planes pile up on the Tarmac Aerosave site in Tarbes. The Covid crisis has grounded airline planes since mid-March. The device storage activity of Tarmac Aerosave in Tarbes has exploded, necessitating a reorganization of its car parks. Read here.
8:13 a.m. "Slow down the screening," says Trump. Donald Trump said on Saturday that he had asked his health authorities to slow the pace of Covid-19 testing because it was causing an increase in the number of cases detected in the United States, the most bereaved country in the world by the pandemic . Without explaining if he was serious, the American president affirmed to the crowd of his supporters gathered in Tulsa, Oklahoma, that the screening was "a double-edged sword". "Here's the bad side: when we do this volume of screening, we find more people, we find more cases," he continued during this first meeting organized during the pandemic in the United States. Our subject to read here.
7.59 a.m. A field hospital in Morocco. Morocco has erected a field hospital in the province of Kénitra (west), which will welcome this Sunday some 700 confirmed cases of Covid-19. This is the highest daily balance since the announcement of the first case in early March in this North African country.
These sources of contamination were discovered Friday in red fruit packaging plants, in a rural commune located northeast of the city of Kenitra, prompting Rabat to tighten restrictions in the region.
7.52 a.m. 568 dead in the United States in 24 hours. It is the tenth day when the daily death toll is less than 1,000 in the United States, although they remain the country hardest hit by the pandemic with 119,654 deaths out of 2,251,205 officially registered infections.
About 20 American states have recently seen a rebound in infections, while the epicenter of the disease in the country has moved from New York and northeast to south and west.
7.45 a.m. With the reopening of cinemas, Hollywood is playing its future. Hollywood is going to find the big screen: the thriller "Enragé", with Russell Crowe, must be released on July 10, the first movie in theaters in the United States since cinemas lowered the curtain because of the coronavirus more than three months ago .
While major movie chains across the country plan to turn on the spotlights again during the first half of July, theaters in New York and Los Angeles are not yet allowed to reopen. And even with social distancing measures and increasing the frequency of cleaning, it remains to be seen whether the public will accept to return to these closed spaces, with the risk of a possible second wave of the pandemic.
7:35 a.m. Over 2 million cases in Latin America and the Caribbean. Half of these cases are recorded in Brazil where the new coronavirus has killed nearly 50,000 people (49,976 exactly), according to a last assessment established from official sources.
A total of 2,007,621 cases of infection have been confirmed in the region.
7:30 a.m. At least 461,230 deaths worldwide. The pandemic has killed at least 461,230 people worldwide since China officially reported the disease in December.
With at least 2,505,650 cases and 192,416 deaths, Europe remains the continent most affected by the pandemic even if it is now in Latin America that the disease is progressing most rapidly.
7:25 a.m. Six members of the Trump meeting organization tested positive for Covid-19. Participants signed a document stating that they would waive all legal action if they contract the virus during the meeting. Read here.
7.20am. 16 new deaths in the past 24 hours. The total number of deaths due to the virus in France, since the start of the epidemic in March, now reaches 29,633 victims, according to the latest figures from Public Health France.
To date, 9,837 patients are still treated in French hospitals.
7:10 a.m. Deconfinement for stadiums, team sports, cinemas, casinos ... The government gave the green light to the practice of team sports on Monday, June 22, and chose to open the stadiums on July 11. However, nightclubs and theaters must wait a little longer. Find out what's coming soon.
VIDEO. Reopening of cinemas: reservation, wearing of mask and distancing from the program