The United States remains the country with the most mournful with 146 968 deaths in front of Brazil, the United Kingdom, Mexico and Italy.
travel Restrictions in Europe, “bubble contact” narrowed in Belgium, beaches closed in the evening in France, travel restricted in Morocco : many countries are toughening their health measures to try to curb the pandemic, who has crossed the bar of the 650, 000 deaths.
In China, where the epidemic had largely been controlled by seven months after the outbreak of the virus, the authorities announced on Tuesday that holders of the new coronavirus from a focus of infection in the north-east of the country have broadcast the Covid-19 in five provinces including the capital, Beijing.
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in the Face of an epidemic that seemed to have been controlled by the introduction of the containment strict in the spring, there is a real concern to see a second wave of economic challenges and societal potentially disastrous.
The German Institute of epidemiology and health monitoring Robert Koch (RKI) is alarmed Tuesday in the increase of new infections in case of Covid-19 in the country for several days, a source of “major concern”.
The “bubble contact” narrowed in Belgium
Referring to a resurgence of “special concern” of the case, the Belgium, one of the countries with the most deaths of the Covid-19 relative to its population (85 per 100 000 inhabitants), has announced a further tightening measures.
as of Wednesday, the number of people that Belgians are allowed to see closely and on a regular basis in the framework of their “bubble touch” will be lowered from 15 to 5 persons, per household, for the next four weeks. “Take these difficult measures (…) is not an easy choice. It is also a duty”, stressed the prime minister of the belgian Sophie Wilmès. “It is essential to curb the epidemic now, so that we can avoid scenarios more difficult.”
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Also worried about a rebound of contamination, the French authorities have ordered the closure of gathering places such as beaches, parks and public gardens of the night in the tourist town of Quiberon, on the Atlantic.
The mask-wearing has been made compulsory in the streets frequented the city centre and on the markets, the local authorities reminiscent of a “cluster of health risk of potential transmission”.
tourism threatened in Spain
In Germany, the authorities will impose a screening for travellers returning from areas at risk. As they have advised against non-essential travel to the Spanish regions of Aragon, Catalonia and Navarre because of the high number of infections,” of coronavirus.
As for Britain, it submits since Sunday passengers from Spain second world tourist destination behind France, in a period of isolation. A measure criticised by Madrid, which was counting on the tourist season and responded by pretending to be a “safe country”. The pandemic has destroyed more than a million jobs in Spain in the second quarter, mostly in the services and tourism industry, according to official figures published on Tuesday.
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The disease has already done 652 ?739 deaths, according to the last balance-sheet prepared by the AFP on Tuesday. The United States remains the country with the most mournful (146 968 deaths), ahead of Brazil (87 618), the Uk (45 752), Mexico (43 680) and Italy (35 112).
The u.s. administration has announced that the contamination of the national security adviser, Robert O’brien, one of the men most often in contact with the president Trump.
In South America, where the picture of the epidemic remains grim, Bolivia has declared Monday a state of “calamity” in the country. The interim president, Jeanine Anez, has for its part announced that she was cured of an asymptomatic form of the novel coronavirus and that it was able to return to work. In Argentina, the bar of the 3000 deaths was reached Monday, and the country is considering a possible strengthening of the containment measures.
Propose an end-of-life-worthy
In Morocco, the sudden decision of the government to introduce severe restrictions of travel on Sunday night to face the risk of the spread of the coronavirus, has caused scenes of chaos.
Greeted by some health professionals, the adoption of measures restricting travel is not the alpha and the omega of the struggle against the epidemic, warned the world Health Organization. The evaluation committee of emergency situations WHO must meet this week to “reevaluate the pandemic”, six months after declaring the outbreak of coronavirus emergency of international public health.
in the Face of an epidemic which shows no sign of abating, the hospital teams are also forced to adapt to offer an end-of-life with dignity for the patients, in the absence of their loved ones. This is the case à hospital Barros Luco in Santiago, Chile, where Enrique Boudon, a patient 94-year-old reached of a pneumonia caused by the coronavirus, has been able to hear the jazz that he loved so much before dying.
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“We called her grand-daughter, who told us that he had been a trumpeter of the philharmonic Orchestra of Chile and he loved jazz. It has been tried on the tablet and it was set to Miles Davis next to her ear. Automatically, he moved his hands, as if he were conducting an orchestra. It was very moving. About two hours after, he died,” says dr. Moyra Lopez.
