French soldiers patrol near Montmartre, in Paris on April 13, 2020. – AFP
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The light at the end of the tunnel. While many of us are living more and more badly the constraint of containment, President Macron gave a date that finally allows us to imagine the beginning of a return to normal life. On Monday evening, in his televised address, the head of state announced a gradual deconfinement from May 11. Still four weeks (at least) to hold. Four weeks during which the executive, municipalities, businesses and even schools will have to work on a safe resumption of activity, while the pandemic of coronavirus is still far from behind and that France has crossed the 15,000 mark of Covid-19 deaths.
He found a culprit. Donald trump announced Tuesday the suspension of the American contribution to the World Health Organization (WHO), guilty in his eyes of having committed numerous “errors” in the coronavirus and being too close to China. “The world has received a lot of false information about transmission and mortality” from the Covid-19, launched the American president in a long and violent indictment against this UN agency. The United States is the main contributor to this health agency headquartered in Geneva.
The big drone “Emmanuel” of the South Tower of Notre Dame de Paris will clink Wednesday at 8 p.m. to commemorate the start of the cathedral fire a year ago: this will be the only event planned on the site, dormant due to the coronavirus. General Jean-Louis Georgelin, president of the public establishment responsible for the restoration of the Gothic jewel of the Ile de la Cité, “made the decision to ring this bell in union with the French who at the same time applaud the carers engaged against the coronavirus ”, indicated the direction of the communication of the Public establishment.
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