The essential :
- In some popular districts of Paris and in some cities of Ile-de-France, wearing a mask becomes compulsory from 8 a.m. on Monday.
- The pandemic has killed nearly 730,000 people worldwide and more than 19.6 million cases have been recorded.
- Evenings bringing together hundreds of people are multiplying, as in the Marne or Lozère, Saturday evening, causing concern for the authorities, faced with a resurgence of the virus.
»The events to remember this Monday August 10:
6:40 am. Covid-19 on a Costa Cruises ship: a collective of passengers files a complaint. A collective of French passengers from the Costa Magica, a cruise ship which had been turned away in early March from several Caribbean ports due to the coronavirus, filed 180 complaints in Paris against the company on Friday, in particular for manslaughter, announced on Sunday their lawyer. These complaints, including those of the families of three passengers who would have died of the Covid-19, according to Me Philippe Courtois, accuse the company of various faults or negligence in the management of the crisis on this ship where several cases of the disease had been declared. .
6:35 am. Warning from the ARS after a rally in the Marne. The health authorities warned the participants in a festive evening on Sunday evening, after noting the non-compliance with barrier gestures. “Several hundred people gathered on the night of August 8 to 9 in the town of Matougues (Marne), as part of a festive evening. On the spot, the gendarmerie noted that the barrier measures were not respected by the participants ”, originating from several cities of France but also from Belgium or the Netherlands, indicated the ARS Grand-Est.
6.30am. Two cases of Covid-19 at Atlético. The final tournament of the Champions League suffers its first turmoil: the announcement Sunday by Atlético Madrid of the presence of two cases of Covid-19 within it leaves uncertainty on this final phase starting Wednesday in Lisbon. This innovative format in "Final 8", supposed to close in an unprecedented way the most prestigious club football competition at the end of August, is struck by the coronavirus even before its start.
6:20 am. Venezuela is extending the "state of alert" by 30 days. Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro on Sunday extended for 30 days the "state of alert" established because of the pandemic and authorizing him to extend the quarantine in force since March.
6:15 a.m. More than 5 million American cases. According to the count from Johns Hopkins University, the world's leading economic power is by far the most affected with more than 162,000 deaths and on Sunday crossed the threshold of five million official cases of contamination. This record did not discourage thousands of motorcyclists from taking to the road to the Midwest, to participate in the largest annual motorcycling gathering in the world, where t-shirts stamped among other things "I survived the corona" were offered for sale. .
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6:10 am. Masked Paris. After Brussels and Madrid and while the heat wave is raging, wearing a mask becomes compulsory from 8 a.m. this Monday in some very busy areas of Paris and in some cities of Île-de-France.
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