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- France records 13 additional deaths in hospital linked to the new coronavirus. In total, the Covid-19 has killed 30,165 people in the country.
- France has 208 active coronavirus outbreaks, according to the Directorate General of Health, which notes that "the circulation of the virus is increasing".
- "The State and the French taxpayer are not intended to pay for masks for everyone all the time", declared on TF1 the President of the Republic.
- The United States has recorded for the eighth consecutive day more than 60,000 new cases of contamination with the coronavirus in the space of 24 hours.
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8:52 am. Free masks for high school students in Ile-de-France. The Ile-de-France region will distribute two washable masks to its 500,000 high school students at the start of the school year and "ensure free masks for all charities", announced Wednesday the president of the community Valérie Pécresse.
8:40 a.m. The actual number of people infected exceeds official figures in the United States. The actual number of people infected with the novel coronavirus in the United States was two to 13 times the official number of cases in the spring, according to data from the Centers for Disease Prevention and Control (CDC) released on Tuesday, which confirms that the pandemic is largely fed by people without symptoms.
Compared to the official number of cases on those dates, the actual number of infections was twice as high in Utah, but ten times as high in South Florida in late April and up to 13 times in the state. more rural Missouri in late May.
8:32. Curfew and return of confinement in Zimbabwe. Zimbabwe's President Emmerson Mnangagwa is issuing a curfew and reinstating strict containment measures in an attempt to stem the spread of the new coronavirus, after a recent surge in cases. The number of infections identified in this southern African country, whose public health system is in ruins after years of severe economic crisis, has increased by nearly a third over the past week, to reach 1,713 cases. . The number of deaths has dropped from 18 to 26.
8:25 am. More than 7,000 dead in Colombia. In the past 24 hours, 237 people have died, bringing the death toll in Colombia to 7,166 since the virus was first detected there on March 6. The number of cases of contamination reached 211,038, according to the authorities. Bogota, the Colombian capital, which has eight million inhabitants, concentrates a third of all recorded cases.
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8:14. Tires and pallets set on fire in front of the prefecture in Guyana. Pallets and tires were set on fire Tuesday morning in front of the prefecture of Guyana, in Cayenne, during a demonstration to ask for more resources for the health services, while this territory is the most affected overseas by the Covid- 19.
Guyana has 40 deaths from Covid-19 and 6,851 cases recorded since March.
8:03 am. Wearing a mask is compulsory in Melbourne. From midnight this Wednesday evening, the inhabitants of Melbourne will be required to wear a mask when they leave their homes, at the risk of being caught if they do not have a fine of 200 Australian dollars (123 euros) .
Australia now has nearly 13,000 cases of Covid-19, a disease that has killed 128 in this country of 25 million people.
7:49 am. The number of new cases at the highest in Australia. Australia announces this Wednesday 501 new cases of coronavirus, the highest figure since the arrival of the pandemic on the island-continent. The vast majority of cases have been identified in the past 24 hours in the state of Victoria (south), where the authorities are fighting major outbreaks of epidemics in Melbourne and its suburbs, which have been submitted for nearly two weeks. to new containment measures. The previous peak of the epidemic was on March 28 when 459 cases.
7:36. More than 400 corpses in the streets and houses in Bolivia. Police have removed more than 400 corpses from streets and homes across Bolivia in the past five days, 85% of whom are victims of the coronavirus, says the Police Force Against Crime (FELCC). Between July 15 and 20, the FELCC proceeded to the removal of some 191 bodies in Cochabamba (center), 141 in La Paz, and 68 in Santa Cruz, region in the east of the country where are listed near the half of the 61,000 cases of contamination, says the national director of this police force, Ivan Rojas.
Bolivia, with 11 million inhabitants, officially has more than 2,200 dead since the start of the pandemic.
7:28. Still too long delays to be tested. If the country is able to do 700,000 tests per week "and even a million if necessary", the Minister of Health, Olivier Véran acknowledged on franceinfo that "there are places where we are almost saturated - where we test a lot, like Ile-de-France […] - others where there is a lot of margin ”.
7:23. First proof of its infectious risk in the exhaled air. The coronavirus in the air exhaled by humans is arguably infectious, according to American researchers. Read here.
7:10. More than 40,000 dead in Mexico. The death toll from the coronavirus pandemic in Mexico exceeds 40,000, announces the Mexican Secretariat of Health. “Deaths: 40,400”, indicates the daily update of the Secretariat for Health on the evolution of the disease, which indicates that 915 new deaths have been recorded in the last 24 hours. The first case of contamination in Mexico was detected on February 28. The number of confirmed cases has increased from 349,396 to 356,255, which represents 6,859 new cases.
6:58 am. Eighth day to more than 60,000 cases in the United States. The 68,524 new infections recorded in one day bring the total number of positive cases in the country to more than 3.89 million since the start of the pandemic, which appeared in December in China before spreading to the rest of the world. The Covid-19 has also caused the death of 961 people in the past 24 hours, for a total of 141,883 deaths, according to the Baltimore-based university, whose reports refer to.
6:45 a.m. Very difficult situation in Florida. Donald Trump recognizes that the health situation is very complicated for the southern states, especially Florida. "In recent weeks, we have observed a worrying increase in cases in many regions of our South," said the US president, referring to "big fires" and even a "very difficult situation" in Florida, a state governed by one of his close allies where he plans to hold in a month the convention supposed to launch the home stretch of his campaign.
6:40 a.m. In trouble, Trump changes his tone. Barely in the polls soon to be a hundred days before the presidential election, criticized for his management of the coronavirus, Donald Trump is trying to regain control by recognizing the seriousness of the health crisis.
“It will, unfortunately, get worse before it gets better. I do not like to say that but it is like that ”, declared the President of the United States at the White House, where he returned for the first time since the end of April with the press conferences on the Covid-19, called to become regular again, as at the height of the pandemic.
6.30am. No free masks for everyone. "The French State and the French taxpayer are not intended to pay for masks for everyone all the time", declared the President of the Republic. A little earlier, Olivier Véran had announced to the Assembly that he wanted to “restart the distribution of free masks for the precarious public”.
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6:25 am. 13 new deaths in hospital. While the President of the Scientific Council Jean-François Delfraissy estimated that the Covid-19 figures were "worrying" in France, 13 new deaths have been recorded in the hospital in the country, according to the latest data communicated by the General Management of Health. In total, the Covid-19 has killed 30,165 people in France.
6.15 a.m. 455 patients suffering from a severe form of Covid-19 are hospitalized in intensive care. "The circulation of the virus is increasing on the national territory", according to the Ministry of Health. Note that 4 regions (Île-de-France, Grand-Est, Hauts-de-France and Guyana) account for 70% of patients hospitalized in intensive care.