DIRECT. Covid-19: Europe is at a decisive moment and must make tough decisions, warns WHO

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• In France, the latest assessment in 24 hours is 36 dead and 7,852 new cases.

• The bill extending the six-month restrictions must be presented to the Council of Ministers.

• The pandemic has killed 935,000 people worldwide.

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7 hours.

Trump believes a vaccine is possible within a month.

US President Donald Trump estimates that a vaccine against Covid-19 could be available within a month.

This is an acceleration of his own already very optimistic predictions.

But he added that the pandemic could also go away on its own.

6:45 am.

A decisive moment for Europe.

Europe is at a decisive moment in the fight against Covid-19 with the increase in the number of cases, the start of the school year and the fall where activities take place more indoors than in the summer, warns an official from the World Health Organization (WHO).

It is time to stop "chasing chimeras" and making tough decisions to protect the most vulnerable and keep young people in school, even if it means accepting inevitable sacrifices, believes the Director of Emergency Situations, Michael Ryan .

Compromises will have to be made to keep both the younger and the older in social life, he said.

“What is more important: the return of our children to classes or the opening of nightclubs and bars?

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6.30am.

Faster expansion in India than in the United States and Brazil.

If India took 167 days to reach one million cases, the next million were identified in just 21 days, according to the Times of India daily, a rate of progression of the pandemic much faster than that of the United States and Brazil.

The country tests around one million people per day.

Many experts believe that the actual number of infections could be much higher than the official toll.

6:15 am.

Over 5 million cases in India.

India crosses the mark of 5 million officially recorded cases in the country.

The second most populous nation on the planet recorded a million new infections in just eleven days.

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