DAILY REPORT
In its Sunday bulletin, Santé Publique France counts 3,015 additional cases in 24 hours. 17 new outbreaks were detected on Sunday, bringing the number of clusters under investigation to 263.
One person died in hospital on Sunday. The number of patients in intensive care remained stable compared to the previous day (376).
The total number of deaths since the start of the epidemic has risen to 30,410 according to the report presented on Sunday by Public Health France. It is the General Directorate of Health which generally communicates the daily statement.
The number of new cases of Covid-19, which is on the rise again this summer, greatly worries the authorities who fear a second wave. More and more cities now require the wearing of masks in certain outdoor areas. And the question of the mask in collective closed places becomes recurrent.
The government thus wants to modify, “by the end of August”, the health rules to contain the coronavirus in business, in particular via the “compulsory wearing of a mask” in certain situations, indicates the Minister of Labor, Elisabeth Borne, in a interview in the Sunday Journal.
In addition, the French are much more worried about the health risk linked to the coronavirus (53%) than the economic risk caused by the spread of the disease (29%), according to an Ifop poll for the JDD.
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