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In France, 258 people have died from the new coronavirus in the past 24 hours.
The total number of deaths has risen to 59,619 since the start of the epidemic.
The number of contaminations is on the rise again with 18,264 cases in 24 hours, still far from the target of 5,000 per day.
The total number of people in intensive care is 2,808 patients.
The President of the Republic, Emmanuel Macron, has tested positive.
He isolated himself in the official residence of La Lanterne while his wife remained at the Elysée.
The United States and Brazil are once again facing very heavy tolls in terms of contaminations and deaths.
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6:45 am.
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ncore more than 3 000 deaths a day in the United States.
The United States has again recorded in the past 24 hours a very heavy toll with more than 3,200 dead and almost 250,000 new cases of coronavirus, according to figures from Johns Hopkins University, which refer to it.
The country is currently facing a spectacular rebound in the epidemic, which has never really fallen into the United States since March.
Over the last 15 days, the mark of 200,000 daily cases has been exceeded 12 times.
6:35 am.
The virus kills three times as many hospital deaths as the classic seasonal flu.
This is the result of a French study published this Friday.
This study, published in the medical journal The Lancet Respiratory Medicine, is based on data from more than 135,000 French patients, i.e. 89,530 hospitalized for Covid-19 in March and April 2020 and 45,819 hospitalized for influenza between December 2018 and February 2019.
The death rate of patients with Covid-19 was three times higher than that of patients affected by influenza: 16.9% for the former (more than 15,000 deaths out of 89,500 patients) against 5.8% for the second (more than 2,600 deaths out of 45,800 patients).
6.30am.
Macron positive for Covid-19: six questions on contamination.
At this stage, several uncertainties remain on the way in which the Head of State contracted the disease and on the consequences of this situation.
He isolated himself in the official residence of La Lanterne while his wife remained at the Elysée.
Read our information on the evolution of the Head of State's health here.
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6:25 am.
258 new deaths in France.
The total number of people who have died has risen to 59,619 since the start of the epidemic.
6:20 am.
A trend of increasing circulation of the virus in France.
The number of contaminations is on the rise again with 18,264 cases in 24 hours, still far from the target of 5,000 per day desired by the government.
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6:10 am.
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