Paris (AFP)

New assessments, new measures, highlights: an update on the latest developments in the Covid-19 pandemic, which killed more than 372,000 people worldwide.

- Deconfinement continues in Europe -

Shops reopen in Moscow, the Grand Bazaar does the same in Istanbul, just like the Colosseum in Rome. Bars reopen in Finland and Norway, cafes and restaurants in the Netherlands, cinemas, theaters and performance halls in Portugal.

In England, schools closed since mid-March are once again welcoming children aged 4 to 6 and 10 to 11 years old.

- More than 372,000 dead -

The pandemic has killed at least 372,047 people worldwide since its onset in December in China, according to an assessment by AFP from official sources Monday at 11:00 GMT.

More than 6.1 million cases have been diagnosed since the start of the epidemic in 196 countries and territories.

But as a proportion of the population, excluding micro-states, mortality is highest in Belgium (818 deaths per million inhabitants), ahead of Spain (580), the United Kingdom (567), Italy (553), France (441), Sweden (435), the Netherlands (348), Ireland (335) and the United States (315).

- Woodpecker in Iran -

Iran announced on Monday nearly 3,000 new infections in the past 24 hours. It was the largest increase in two months in the country.

"People seem to think that the coronavirus is finished" but it is "far from being finished" and "we could witness at any time (another) dangerous peak", warned the Minister of Health Saïd Namaki.

- Hydroxychloroquine -

The United States has sent Brazil two million doses of hydroxychloroquine, which will be used preventively to help medical personnel fight the virus, according to the White House. The use of this molecule, derived from the antimalarial chloroquine, is debated in the scientific community and divides the health authorities of different countries.

- Prime Minister infected -

Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pachinian has announced that he is infected with the new coronavirus, as the epidemic worsens in this small Caucasian country whose hospitals are overcrowded.

- Vigil canceled in Hong Kong -

The annual vigil in Hong Kong in memory of the crackdown on Tiananmen Square protests has been banned, for the first time in 30 years, with police citing risks from the coronavirus.

But the vigil organizers accuse the Hong Kong-aligned Beijing executive of using the virus to prevent an event that irritates the central government.

Hong Kong is the only place in China where the event is commemorated.

- Viruses and poverty -

The number of poor families could double this year in the West Bank due to the pandemic, according to a World Bank study.

If the Palestinian Territories are relatively spared from the pandemic, the crisis has weighed on activity. The economic impact should be all the more significant as tens of thousands of West Bankers work in Israel, also affected by the crisis.

- Containment buzz -

The cooking lessons of an eight-year-old girl have made the happiness of Burmese internet users, still confined to their homes because of the pandemic.

In his most popular video, viewed over 200,000 times, Moe Myint May Thu wears a unicorn T-shirt and explains how to make the Burmese national dish, Mohingya, a soup made with rice noodles and fish- cat.

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