One million deaths from Covid-19 around the world: story of lives turned upside down by the epidemic

One million deaths from Covid-19 around the world.

Such a figure, crossed on Monday and unimaginable a few months ago, is now a cruel reality for hundreds of thousands of men, women and children across the planet.

There are of course, and above all, those who have seen a loved one, a love, a parent, the greatest loss, comparable to no other.

There are also all those who have suffered the torments of a new world, separated from their own or swept away by the dramatic consequences of a virus which has struck everywhere, indiscriminately, without anyone expecting it.

The Parisian has found witnesses and anonymous actors of these lives turned upside down by the coronavirus epidemic.

Here is their story.

Rania: "I wonder if it wasn't me who contaminated them…"

Nejiba and Habib, Rania's parents, died three days apart from the coronavirus, last April.

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In the life of 40-year-old Rania, the coronavirus epidemic had the effect of a tidal wave.

The kind of storm that shatters everything in its path and whose effects are still being felt six months later.

"There have been so many things ... I simply lost the will to live," breathes this Parisian in a soft voice.

In April, his two parents, Habib and Nejiba, 59 and 70, succumbed to the virus three days apart.

Leaving their daughter, who fell out with her brother, alone with his questions.

With his guilt, too.

"The Friday before confinement, I went to see my parents," recalls the forty-something.

Since then, I live with doubt, I wonder if it was not me who contaminated them… ”His flow slows down.

“I would have preferred 1000 times that it was me who passes there.

I have no children, I have no one, I have nothing ”, brutally blurted out Rania, distressed by“ the feeling of not having said goodbye to them ”.

On March 31, it is by a call from her dad, who has presented for a few days "a flu with a little cough, but nothing very bad", that the Parisian learns of the hospitalization of her mother, "fallen to the ground ".

She would not see her again until the day before she died, three weeks later.

Rania does not immediately understand that Nejiba, in respiratory distress, is suffering from Covid-19.

She comes for five days to take care of her father and manages to speak to her mother on the phone a few times.

But her condition deteriorated and she was placed in intensive care at the Pompidou hospital.

The next day, April 4, her husband was in turn hospitalized.

Rania, who is surprised by this "flu that does not pass", will have news from him until April 18.

“At 6 pm, a doctor from Saint-Louis calls me, he tells me

.

I wanted to hang up on him, to insult him.

I didn't want to face reality, ”she recalls.

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Her dad, whose kidneys have deteriorated, died shortly before midnight from the coronavirus.

Two days later, terrible history repeats itself.

The Pompidou hospital contacted her.

“They say to me:

”.

The latter goes out the next day.

After Habib and Nejiba's funeral, the same day, Rania throws herself headlong into the administrative formalities.

She contacted hospitals to obtain certain answers, as well as the Presidency of the Republic.

"To tell my story, so that they bring me administrative help, because I was lost," insists the young woman.

We should have been confined as early as February.

I believe that France is responsible for what happened.

It is up to them to help us.

"

This Parisian woman now suffers from depressive symptoms and receives psychological help at the Avicenne hospital.

“I can't manage myself anymore.

I, who traveled a lot, who liked to laugh… I feel that my health is deteriorating ”, enraged the young woman, who concedes having“ seen no one for a month ”.

For Rania, who also does not feel the strength to work again, the path to eventual resilience risks being further tormented.

“I still haven't sorted their things.

What I do know is that I want to run away from reality.

"

Jessica, single mother unemployed in the United States: "Every night, I fall asleep crying"

Jessica alongside her brother Chase, who died of Covid-19 at the age of thirty.

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Before the Covid, the situation of Jessica, a 37-year-old American nurse, was already fragile.

The epidemic has made it even worse.

In April, this health professional, who worked from home, lost her job because of the crisis.

“In the meantime, I lost my car, which I couldn't pay for, so I couldn't move,” says the single mother, based in Charlotte, North Carolina.

For a few weeks, Jessica had the support of her brother, Chase, who came to join her family to lend her a hand.

“When I lost my job, my little brother was there to take over, but he died of Covid in June,” says Jessica.

Chase was only 30 years old.

Since then, Jessica has done what she can to care for her two children, Dakota, 17, and Haylie, 15.

Her daily life is punctuated by online job searches, housework and monitoring her children's lessons from a distance.

With only $ 86 in unemployment benefits per week, it's hard to feed the whole family properly.

“My priority is for my kids to eat, so I skip meals.

I know it's not good, but they are priority.

They always have been and always will be, ”she promises.

At home, Haylie and Dakota seem happy to see their mom every day.

“They didn't see me often before, because I worked all the time, had one or two jobs at a time, or more.

For food, it is not easy.

I try to hide a lot of things but since they are tall they understand more than I imagined ”, Jessica saddens.

These charges weigh on the morale of the mother, "all alone" in the face of the crisis.

“Every night, I fall asleep crying,” she admits in despair.

Because the more the months pass, the more debts accumulate.

And the more complicated Jessica's situation gets.

Especially since at the end of August, this mother was diagnosed with ovarian cancer, who still has to pay 2,700 dollars for the funeral costs related to the death of her brother.

Her meager allowances barely cover her daily bills.

The only advantage: it is exempt from rent.

“My landlady is wonderful,” says Jessica.

“Every week I give him what I can, 20 dollars, for example.

The rest is used to pay for food.

I don't know how we haven't been kicked out of the house yet and how the electricity hasn't been cut yet, ”she admits.

Jessica has, however, made several requests for aid to the government and the State of North Carolina.

Without success.

Impossible for her to benefit from the

, which offers 300 dollars a week more to recipients of traditional unemployment benefit: her basic allowance is, paradoxically, not high enough.

"We are still waiting to receive the

check

(a check for 1200 dollars promised by Donald Trump to the Americans), and I hope it will fall, it will allow me to launch a loan to buy a car," explains Jessica.

In the meantime, like many Americans hit hard by the crisis, Jessica is relying on an online fundraiser to try to fund upcoming medical bills, as well as food for her children.

Because, despite everything, his children remain the priority.

On September 13, his eldest son, Dakota, celebrated his 17th birthday.

"I did not even have enough to offer him a birthday cake," laments the mother.

Stéphanie and her grandmother "died of loneliness" in nursing home: "We know she was not surrounded"

According to Stéphanie, her grandmother could not endure isolation and confinement.

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Not having been able to see her again "fractured" her.

At the end of March, while France is turning in on itself to protect itself from the virus, Stéphanie, 31, told us about her fears.

His grandmother, Rose, is one of the hundreds of thousands of elderly people then confined in their medical establishment, deprived of any contact with their relatives, health measure requires.

In this Ehpad in the Landes, in which this “well-established” character finds the other residents “really too old”, the thirty-something is afraid that her grandmother “will decline by dint of depression”.

Let her "go" and "end her life on her own".

To think about it again, almost six months later, is cruel.

Rose died in mid-May.

"Dead of loneliness", according to Stéphanie, the very week of deconfinement.

Officially, it was an ulcer that swept away this woman who arrived in France in the 1980s, after Lebanon and Senegal.

“The family's explanation is that they let themselves be overwhelmed by stress,” says Stéphanie, living in Clamart (Hauts-de-Seine).

The condition of her grandmother, her “Teta”, as she calls her in Lebanese, has suddenly deteriorated with the implementation of health measures.

“At the beginning, the residents ate among themselves, my grandmother spent her time playing cards, rewinds Stéphanie.

When we kept them locked in their rooms for fear of contamination, that's where it started.

The first signals are discreet.

Rose is no longer "always in time".

“While my wedding was planned for the summer, she kept asking me how it went,” recalls Stéphanie.

The days go by and the grandmother becomes "more and more confused".

During their video calls, she reacts less.

Look at the ceiling.

The family is worried.

Rose, little by little, said nothing more.

In older people, slip syndrome is a sudden change in behavior: it is sometimes said that they let themselves be carried to death.

It most often occurs after a trauma, sometimes linked to the impression of no longer having control over one's destiny.

In May, the establishment opens the door to relatives.

Stéphanie's sister goes there.

Stéphanie and her brother join her during a video call.

Everyone has a feeling that this is undoubtedly one of the last.

Stéphanie, who has returned to work, turns on her phone from a small local trash can in her children's library.

“My sister gently stroked her face,” she describes.

My brother bade him farewell… ”Her voice breaks.

“Me, I was not too successful.

I was afraid to say to her: I allow you to leave, and that she die.

Because I didn't want her to die at all.

"

The fateful message falls into the family mailbox a few days later.

Stéphanie will mourn for 40 days.

“I've lost a big piece of myself,” she sighs.

We didn't have much to console ourselves.

When someone dies, it is often said that she did not suffer, she was surrounded.

There, we know that she suffered, we know that she was not surrounded ”.

Deprived of her relatives by measures supposed to protect her.

Marc, separated from his family who remained in Vietnam: "The world has collapsed"

Marc and his family.

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Each day, Marc is entitled to two moments of respite.

Two parentheses that bring him back to his pleasures before the crisis, in Vietnam where he had decided to make his life.

Blocked in France by desperately closed borders, the 60-year-old has not seen his family and baby since February.

When he returned for business, Louise was not four months old.

She will be a year old in a few weeks.

It all started on the shores of the Gulf of Thailand.

Author and photographer, Marc surveyed this region of Asia in June 2018 for a book he will publish at Sipayat, the publishing house he runs.

In search of an English speaker who could play the translator, he pushes the door of a small inn.

The person in charge of the place is called Tinh.

She will change her life.

The two lovers meet in Bangkok, Ho Chi Minh City and set their sights on Bảo Lộc, a small mountain town, in a region of tea and coffee.

They invest in their dream: in turn, set up accommodation for backpackers and bikers who crisscross the area to the highlands of Đà Lạt.

Louise was born on October 17.

This new family, which also includes Huy, a six-year-old boy born from a first marriage, is gradually finding its rhythm.

On February 7, Marc returned to France to participate in a series of literary events.

“This is where the world collapsed,” he breathes.

The world is confining itself to the pandemic.

Held 10,000 km from his family, the former reporter lives left to right, lodged with friends, tossed around in the winds from Touraine to Dordogne, from Orléans (Loiret) to Béziers (Hérault), where he hopes now be able to welcome his family.

For lack of tourists, the guesthouse closed.

The publishing house here also sank.

Marc takes care of his liquidation.

So there remain these two preserved moments that Marc cherishes so much.

They are simple video calls.

One in the morning, that is to say at the beginning of the afternoon in Vietnam.

"The little one comes out of the nap, we chat, I call her", he describes gently.

The other exchange is also sacred, in the afternoon, when it is dark in Asia.

"There, it's me and my partner," he slips away.

This is our story.

"

Marta, sick for six months: "At 32, you shouldn't feel vulnerable"

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At 32, Marta was leading a busy life.

Always traveling, the doctoral student in political sociology and teacher and researcher in political science juggled her work, her many sports activities and outings with her relatives.

“I was a hyperactive person”, relates the one who has lived in Paris for ten years.

But in March, the young Italian catches the Covid-19.

The illness feels like a car accident, as if a bus had hit her head on.

Since then, his daily life has been turned upside down.

No more biking, swimming, running, drinking with friends and party nights.

“Today, I can't even do ten minutes of yoga,” she breathes.

Marta has been suffering from Covid-19 for more than six months.

It is part of the "long Covid", these patients caught up by the disease, when they thought they were cured.

The Italian is in "a permanent inflammatory state".

Since its contamination, the infection has gradually spread to the lungs, then to the kidneys and the heart.

Certainly, today, she is better than in March, but less well than in July.

“Every day I have symptoms that I didn't know about.

I never wake up feeling like I'm in good shape.

Even on the days when I feel better, I don't have the energy I used to have at all.

At the slightest effort, Marta still experiences tachycardia and oxygen desaturation.

He was recently discovered to have a heart murmur.

And then there are those days when the symptoms are too severe, "where I have to lie down, with a little fever, chest pain, head pain".

And this fatigue… “I am often at home.

I don't go out like I used to.

My activities are very limited, ”says the young woman, who now works with more doctors and nurses than her friends.

Marta will soon resume classes at the University of Lille, where she has been teaching for two years.

For the moment, she is having meetings with her colleagues, by videoconference.

“I manage to keep up, but afterwards I'm out of breath and I feel very tired.

Writing his scientific articles has become a very trying exercise.

"I'm afraid that this will play on my career", worries the young researcher.

How to move forward, when the disease is constantly remembered?

“I try to be positive, to think that it will end one day, that I have to listen to my body.

The goal is to get back to my old life.

Until then, I wait.

No effort, therefore, that she could pay later.

Especially since the epidemic situation is deteriorating and the possibility of catching the disease again deeply anguishes him.

“I don't know if I would survive a new infection.

I haven't finished with the first one… ”, laments the young Italian.

The memory of his contamination in March is still very painful.

Returned from the emergency room because the Parisian hospitals were overwhelmed and there were patients "older and more serious than she", Marta had "believed to be dying".

Contacted by her relatives, the Italian Embassy had then taken charge of her.

She had been able to return to her country to be hospitalized there for a few days in April.

Today, the young woman knows she is "more fragile than the others".

"I was not before, I was in good health," she annoys.

Now I am a vulnerable person.

And it's terribly frustrating: at 32, you shouldn't feel vulnerable.

"

Mathieu, settled in Dalian, China: "From there to imagine that nothing would return to the way it was before ..."

Mathieu and his fiancée Yu Qiong.DR  

The first few weeks, Mathieu was reassuring.

At the beginning of January, this young man born in China, and who lived in France for fifteen years, still receives worried phone calls from his relatives with lightness.

An unknown virus has just made its first victims in the country.

But these seem to be confined around the Wuhan market.

Far, very far from Dalian, the seaside city of seven million inhabitants where the thirty-something resides, in the east of the continent.

It must be said that at the time, Mathieu was fully up to his plans: he had just bought an apartment with his fiancée, Yu Qiong, to whom he was to unite on August 31.

For the ceremony, he is waiting firmly for his family and friends who have remained in France, where he still visits regularly.

“And then, everything accelerated,” he breathes.

In a few weeks, the dead number in the hundreds.

There is talk of infections in the city.

Psychosis is spreading to the population which rushes to pharmacies to buy masks, soon out of stock.

Even before confinement is applied in his city, Mathieu, vulnerable since a leukemia for which he was treated, decides to lock himself in his home.

It won't be out for almost two months.

“It was a stressful time, for me but also for my girlfriend and for my father,” he recalls.

It became even more complicated when I started to follow the arrival of the epidemic in France and to be afraid for my loved ones.

"

In mid-March, Emmanuel Macron announced that travel between the countries of the European Union and the others will now be "suspended".

Mathieu, on the other side of the globe, still hopes to maintain his marriage at the end of August.

"The French authorities were talking about a confinement of only fifteen days," he recalls.

Obviously, we suspected that it would be a little more: maybe a month, or even two.

From there to imagine that nothing would return to the way it was before… ”

As summer begins, the couple understand that the epidemic, like a never-ending cycle, never really ends.

Death in the soul, he postpones his marriage to the Greek calends.

"We believed in it until the end", repeats Mathieu.

Close to a fragile father and a grandfather suffering from cancer, the young man is deprived of his trips to France, upon return of which a fortnight would be compulsory.

He himself refuses to take risks.

It has been a year since he took a plane.

So there is this unpleasant feeling that this side of his life is moving forward without him.

In November, one of her oldest friends is due to give birth to a first child.

Her closest high school buddy will turn 30.

A few days ago, he told her during a videoconference call that he was getting married.

On the other side of the screen, Mathieu cried.

If everything had gone as planned, he should have learned it in person, several weeks earlier, at his own wedding… It was before the virus hit the planet and all its projects.

Mathieu had asked him to be his witness.

Bernadette, stranded for 50 days in Argentina: "My husband can no longer walk"

Bernadette and her husband, aged 74 and 83.

Here at the start of their journey.

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Bernadette had thought of everything, even the most morbid.

His Roland would leave in a "lead coffin".

And he would wear his tango dancer costume, the one he intended to wear at the “milonga”, the popular Argentine ball.

We are in mid-March 2020. France falls into confinement, and on the other side of the world, in the depths of Patagonia, Bernadette sees her husband, aged 83, go to intensive care due to a severe infection with Covid-19.

“I had admitted his death.

But today, I refuse to be separated ”.

Six months after this “nightmare”, this retiree from Val-de-Marne is watching more than ever over the one who has shared her life for 54 years.

Thanks to pulmonary rehabilitation, Roland certainly no longer needs a ventilator.

But the months spent in bed led to bone calcifications, which today prevent him from standing.

“A rheumatologist is considering having a hip prosthesis fitted.

We will pray for.

Because otherwise, I don't see how I'm going to get by on my own, ”breathes Bernadette, who refuses to place him in a retirement home.

Before recovering: “Be careful, Roland is not walking anymore but he still has his head.

And he intends to go back to Argentina one day ”.

After Puglia or Japan, this couple of two children embarked on March 9, 2020 to discover the land of Pumas.

An organized trip with retired friends, like them from the insurance industry.

The enchantment will only last three days.

We told you about their galley at the time.

After Buenos Aires and Ushuaia, the 23 French find themselves confined in a hotel located in El Calafate, at the foot of the Andes Cordillera: one of them has just tested positive for the new coronavirus.

A news that causes the entire province to be placed under cover, even before the capital gives national instructions.

Two days later, it was Roland's turn to feel signs of shortness of breath.

In total, nearly eleven people will be hospitalized on site.

VIDEO.

Confined to the hotel, the French retirees applaud the Argentinian caregivers

FRANCESES AISLADOS SALUDAN A TRABAJADORES DE LA SALUD DE EL CALAFATE

▶ ️ MIRÁ Grupo de jubilados franceses aplauden y agradecen a trabajadores de la salud de hospital de #ElCalafate desde su aislamiento en hotel.

Uno de ellos es el único positivo de # COVID19 #Coronavirus.

Otro permanence in terapia, aún sin confirmación.

Tres mas son sospechosos.

Gepostet von Señal Calafate am Montag, 23. März 2020

Stuck at the Edenia Hotel, Bernadette had to deal with impatience and anger.

“Some were complaining like children and did not understand why it took time to organize repatriation.

Yet we were so well taken care of on site ”.

With a rested head, she says she is dismayed by this facet "not pretty, pretty" of the human being.

Instead of 14 days, this journey that looks like a Calvary lasted 51. And cost Bernadette twice as much as expected.

The end of the “most expensive and the most anxiety-provoking” trip of his life.

Sybille, and her impossible mourning: "It's quite complicated to rebuild yourself"

Michel Buraschi is one of the twenty retirees who died in the Cornimont nursing home, in the Vosges, which has become a focus of the coronavirus.

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The "complicated and anxiety-provoking" context weighs heavily on the grieving process experienced by Sybille Godot and her two sisters.

Their dad, Michel Buraschi, died on March 14 at the age of 87, after being infected with the coronavirus.

They are more than twenty residents of its Ehpad, that of Cornimont, in the Vosges, to have died in the same way, in just a few days.

“It was very violent.

Even today, it is not really obvious.

In my head, he's still at Cornimont, ”Sybille Godot says.

She is well aware of it: “I did not manage to mourn.

It's pretty complicated to rebuild, but I'm on the right track.

"

Five months before the death of her dad, it was her mother who passed away in this small hilly town.

A heavy double mourning to carry and accentuated by the epidemic.

“For my mother it was also difficult, but there was a logical starting procedure, with tributes and a beautiful mass.

What shocked us for my dad was to have been alone at that time, at the funeral home and at the funeral where there were only 12 of us, when he was known in our small town.

I would never have thought that it could hurt me so much ", recognizes the youngest of the siblings, who is not at all angry or eager for answers as to the circumstances of the contamination of her dad, already in bad shape.

"He had not put up with mum's death, he had lost a lot of weight and it had become complicated ..."

Sybille Godot then evokes the wave of sadness that gripped her in the heart of summer, when she set foot in the family home to sort things out with her sisters.

“I said to myself

But we couldn't laugh much.

It was quite violent to come across things, memories.

"

All three have been clinging for several months to a fierce desire to organize a ceremony to honor their dad.

But the epidemic is not helping.

Sybille's daughter is stranded in the UK where she works and her mother says she cannot imagine this tribute could be held without her.

“We thought we would do it in September, but each time, we had to postpone it because of the complicated health situation.

The mother of the family recognizes at least one thing: the last few months have enabled her to strengthen already very strong bonds with her sisters.

“We agreed on everything, there was no tension, no animosity and it's very precious.

"

Frédéric, a young boss who was smiling at everything: "Everything collapsed with the health restrictions"

Frédéric (right), his partner, and two of their employees. DR  

This first quarter of 2020 was decisive for the start-up Bali-Boo, specializing in alternatives to plastic, whose flagship product is bamboo straw.

“We were about to sign the biggest contract of our existence.

A big club in Ibiza wanted to replace all of their plastic straws.

After months of discussions, we were waiting for the last signature supposed to release the funds, ”sighs Frédéric K., 35, co-founder of the company based in Bali (Indonesia).

But the global coronavirus crisis has decided otherwise.

“Orders from bars, hotels and restaurants represent 90% of our turnover.

Everything collapsed with the sanitary restrictions, from the month of February, ”says the thirty-something, bitter.

A blow all the more hard as the small company had just made big investments.

“We were about to reap the fruits of four years of hard work.

But there, difficult to know if our company will survive the crisis ”.

Since this cataclysmic first quarter, neither Frédéric nor his partner has been able to pay himself a salary.

“Our company is based in Bali, where there is no safety net.

We have no help, from anyone, ”underlines the young French boss.

To hold out, Frédéric was able to rely on the sale of an apartment he owned in France.

“Objectively, I feel a bit dejected.

But I try to stay positive and keep my spirits up.

"

In June, however, two good orders gave him some hope.

"It allowed us not to go out of business," breathes the young man.

This breath of fresh air allowed the entrepreneur to pay his employees a full salary once again, having been forced to halve it during the toughest months.

"Since the hotel industry will not take off again in the coming months, we have reinvested all that we had left in retail, which exploded during confinement", assures the thirty-something, combative.

“People were stuck in their homes, so they ordered a lot on the Internet.

Which forced us to change our inventory management strategy ”.

At the end of July, Frédéric returned to his mother's house in Saumur (Maine-et-Loire).

“The good side of things is that I spend a lot of time with my mother, even though I've lived in Bali for five years,” he puts into perspective.

But to make matters worse, the young entrepreneur has not seen his girlfriend, Malaysian, since mid-June, because of the severe travel restrictions put in place in his country to stop the spread of the epidemic.

“The restrictions are supposed to end on December 31.

Well, I hope… "

Claire, widow of Eric, emergency doctor: "The images of my husband in the hospital parade constantly"

Claire Loupiac is the widow of emergency doctor Eric Loupiac, who died of Covid-19.  DR  

More than five months after the death of her husband, Eric, swept away by Covid-19, Claire Loupiac, 57, still wakes up at night with flashes.

“The images of my husband in the hospital keep scrolling.

I hear the resuscitators, very pessimistic, talking to me like robots ”.

She still can not look at the photos of her husband.

"32 years of marriage ... All these happy moments ... I can't think about it, otherwise I fall for it".

The 50-year-old is going to put up for sale the apartment she shared with her husband in the center of Lyon.

“I have too many memories there.

I don't even know what our room looks like today, I haven't been able to set foot in it since Eric's death, ”says Claire, who took refuge in the suburbs, with her deceased parents.

“For now, I stay like that, in suspense.

I live day by day ".

The couple's third child, Maxime, 21, followed her.

But the young student in engineering school is going this week on a work-study program in Valence, for three months.

“I will have to face the loneliness in these conditions.

I still don't realize it, ”Claire blows.

“And I dare not think of Christmas time.

It's going to be appalling ”.

Doctor Eric Loupiac would have been infected in March during an emergency call at Lons-le-Saunier hospital, where he had been practicing for twelve years.

He died a month after being admitted to intensive care in Marseille.

Nothing, according to Claire, foreshadowed such a drama.

“My husband was just 60 years old.

He was athletic, non-smoker and had no chronic illness.

It's a cruel virus, ”she annoys.

Her husband expected to return his apron in three years.

“We were waiting for his retirement to travel.

We had a lot of projects.

We wanted to settle in Provence to end our old age ”.

For the former pharmacist, who had ended her activities more than fifteen years ago, the change of life promises to be brutal.

"I find myself without work, without occupation," she sums up.

For now, the status of occupational disease has still not been recognized for Eric, depriving Claire of her pension.

"How long am I going to have to live like this?"

Everything collapsed around me.

Honestly, I would have preferred to be twenty years older.

I am not sure I will be able to live another thirty years in these conditions ”.

Last August, Claire filed a complaint against X for "manslaughter", "failure to assist a person in danger" and "failure to provide assistance".

“I need to understand what mistakes could have been made.

Why we let my husband work without protection, ”she explains.

So many questions to be answered by the preliminary investigation, opened by the prosecutor's office of Lons-le-Saunier.

Rafa, confined for six months in Argentina: "We dream of resuming our former life"

Half a year of confinement ... and an epidemic situation that remains critical.

More than 10,000 new cases are recorded every day on average in Argentina, and this figure continues to increase (admittedly, less strongly than before the summer).

The whole country was confined on March 20, two days after France.

The region of "Greater Buenos Aires", the most affected, is still affected by severe restrictions.

Certain measures have indeed been lightened (restaurant terraces were able to reopen on August 31, for example), but authorized trips are still limited to what is strictly necessary.

A situation which weighs on the physical and psychological health of the inhabitants.

“Like everyone else, I am extremely tired.

We dream of resuming our previous life, ”says Rafa, a 44-year-old entrepreneur.

As much as the restrictions seemed necessary to him this summer, Rafa considers that the social price to be paid for some of them is now excessive.

"Schools have not reopened face-to-face, universities either ... The government says it is thinking about it, but it seems to be

", annoys this father of two children aged 7 and 3.

His hopes are now on the arrival of summer.

In Argentina, like elsewhere in the southern hemisphere, spring kicks off these days.

The warm temperatures expected over the next few weeks could help limit the spread of the virus.

"The epidemic seems to be declining very slowly in the capital and the peak seems to have passed, we hope that the heat will help us more", Rafa points out.

The summer period could also help restart the economy, devastated by these six months of restrictions. "People will consume more with the summer and the end of year celebrations", anticipates the entrepreneur, who at the same time is "very afraid for next year and the return of winter". Like many residents all over the world, he does not see how life could resume as before without a vaccine against Covid-19. “But I don't think we'll have it in the first months of next year. All of this is far from over… ”