6:06 pm: The Minister of Health affirms that a reconfinement of the country is “not on the agenda and does not constitute a working hypothesis”. For Olivier Véran, the government has more “knowledge” and “means”. “We can put in place specific, territorialized measures, as we have done successfully in Mayenne”, adds the minister thus following the lineage of Emmanuel Macron. The president has indeed affirmed that he does not wish to set up a new quarantine so as not to put “the country at a standstill”. The government’s strategy is now to “know how to deal with outbreaks when they are discovered.”
17h04: The United Kingdom recorded 1,041 new positive cases of COVID-19 on Sunday, up from 1,288 the day before, according to government figures. Six people have died after testing positive, compared to 18 announced on Saturday.
16h11: The president of the Sicily region, Nello Musumeci, defied the Italian government on Sunday by issuing an order to close all migrant reception centers on its territory, which he considers conducive to the spread of Covid-19. immediately clarified that a measure invalid because of the competence of the state, according to sources of the Italian Ministry of the Interior. “By tomorrow midnight, all migrants present in the ‘hot spots’ and in all the reception centers in Sicily must be transferred to facilities located outside the island”, we read in the report. an order of around thirty pages, which also aims to prohibit any migrant from “entering, transit and stop over in the territory of the Sicilian region with boats, large and small, including those of NGOs.” The President of Sicily explains his decision by the fact that “it is not possible to guarantee the stay on this island in compliance with sanitary measures to prevent contagion.”
11:35 am: In Mexico, the threshold of 60,000 deaths from the coronavirus has been crossed. Some 644 deaths have been recorded in the past 24 hours, for a total of 60,254 deaths, according to the Ministry of Health. On June 4, the Under Secretary for Health, Hugo Lopez-Gatell, had said that “a very catastrophic scenario could reach 60,000” deaths. Mexico is the third most bereaved country in the world behind the United States and Brazil, according to official figures, surely underestimated. Few tests carried out The authorities have nevertheless been optimistic recently.
9:38 am: More than 3,500 new cases of Covid-19 have been recorded in France in the last 24 hours, according to figures released Saturday by health authorities. Over the last day, 3,602 new positive diagnoses were recorded, against 4,586 on Friday. The percentage of positive tests continues to increase slightly, to 3.5% from 3.4% on Friday. 38 new foci of grouped cases (clusters) were detected, also indicated Public Health France. In total, 4,711 people are hospitalized for a Covid-19 infection, a slightly lower figure (they were 4,745 on Friday, 4,748 on Thursday). The number of patients in intensive care (380) is stable compared to Friday (379).
08h11: The death toll from the pandemic caused by the new coronavirus exceeded 800,000 on Saturday, according to an AFP count, as many countries are facing an outbreak of new cases and are increasing restrictions. In this context, the World Health Organization (WHO) recommended the wearing of masks for “children aged 12 and over under the same conditions as adults”. And this “in particular when they cannot guarantee a distance of at least one meter from others and if the transmission is generalized in the zone concerned”.
WHO has also declared, through the voice of its boss Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, hope “to end this pandemic in less than two years”. “Especially if we can unite our efforts (…) and by making the most of the available tools and hoping that we can have additional tools like vaccines, I think we can put an end to it in a shorter period of time than (for) the (Spanish) flu of 1918 “, which had decimated 50 million people until 1920, he added. “In the current situation, (…) the virus is more likely to spread,” said the head of the WHO. “But we have the advantage of having better technologies (…) And we know how to stop it”.
06h52: Spain, despite some of the strictest containment in the world, the wearing of the generalized mask and millions of tests, is once again one of the most affected countries, with more than 8,000 additional cases in one day. As for Italy, it announced on Saturday that it had recorded 1,071 new daily contaminations, crossing the symbolic threshold of one thousand per day for the first time since May 12.
Simple recommendation until then, wearing a mask is now mandatory in public transport in Denmark. Tightening screws also in England where containment is tightened in several areas of the north-west and where the second most populous city, Birmingham, has been placed under surveillance.
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