88 people died of Covid-19 this Tuesday, May 24 in hospital, according to the daily report of the organization Public Health France.
16,510 patients are also hospitalized in French hospitals (against 16,785 on Monday), including 666 who arrived in the last 24 hours.
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Among them, 1072 patients are treated in critical care units.
24 hours earlier, they were 1074.
What to remember from this Tuesday
In the United Kingdom, the “partygate” scandal, targeting Boris Johnson, was relaunched on Tuesday with the publication of photos of the Prime Minister sharing a drink in Downing Street in 2020, in full confinement.
These photos published Monday evening by ITV News were taken during a farewell party for the head of communications Lee Cain on November 13, 2020, a few days after the announcement of a second confinement in England.
We see Boris Johnson raise his glass and chat with several people around a table on which there are several bottles of wine and food.
Added to these photos were statements by Downing Street employees describing to the BBC, on condition of anonymity, regular parties, with according to them the implicit agreement of Boris Johnson.
WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus was reappointed for a second five-year term on Tuesday.
He was the only candidate in the running.
A malaria specialist, graduate in immunology and doctor of community health, Dr. Tedros, as he likes to call himself, was Minister of Health and head of diplomacy in his country.
His face has been made familiar around the world by the fight against the Covid-19 pandemic which remains one of his main concerns.
In Singapore, an official was sentenced on Tuesday to four weeks in prison for having leaked information on the authorities' anti-Covid policy during the pandemic.
Chua Wee Lin, 52, then deputy director of the National Library Council, had informed 18 others in a WhatsApp group in June 2020 of the proposed easing measures for anti-Covid restrictions, four days before the government announcement.
