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Coronavirus: Pandemic is the worst global crisis since 1945, according to the UN
The Covid-19 pandemic is the worst global crisis since the Second World War, said UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Tuesday, expressing his fears of seeing more conflicts in the world. Asked during an exchange with the media on what motivated this qualification of "worst world crisis since the UN was founded" seventy-five years ago, he replied that it was "the combination of a a threatening disease for everyone and an economic impact leading to an unprecedented recession in the recent past. ” "The combination of these two factors and the risk of increasing instability, increased violence, increased conflict" make this crisis "the greatest challenge for us since the Second World War". It is also the crisis "which requires the strongest and most effective response", which can only go "through solidarity and the bringing together of all by abandoning political games and understanding that humanity is at stake" added Antonio Guterres.
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With 3,500 dead, France exceeds China's official death toll
France, which has passed the milestone of 3,500 coronavirus deaths, continues on Wednesday to evacuate patients to relieve the most saturated regions with, for the first time since Ile-de-France, two medical TGVs which will reach Brittany . Prime Minister Edouard Philippe and Minister of Health Olivier Véran will be heard this Wednesday at the National Assembly by the fact-finding mission, to talk about the "impact, management and consequences" of the epidemic. Three months to the day after the first alert by the World Health Organization on unexplained lung diseases in China, France recorded Tuesday a new record increase in the number of deaths from coronavirus: 499 in 24 hours, one death every three minutes. According to the latest report from the authorities, the epidemic killed 3,523 people. The number of intensive care patients more than doubled in one week and reached 5,565 on Tuesday evening (+458). The number of deaths in France now exceeds the official toll in China (3,305). But many experts, based in particular on the high number of funeral urns that families have started to recover in China, consider the official Chinese number to be largely underestimated.
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Coronavirus: Pope Diouf, the former president of OM, has died
The world of mourning football. Former president of Olympique de Marseille from 2005 to 2009, Pape Diouf (68) died of coronavirus. Announced by the Senegalese public television channel RTS, the information was confirmed to AFP by a source close to the family. Pape Diouf was to be repatriated from Dakar to Nice by medical plane but his condition deteriorated, the plane could not take off and he died on Senegalese soil, according to the same source. Diouf had been hospitalized in Dakar, suffering from coronavirus and undergoing respiratory assistance.
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Death of Pape Diouf: "A father", a "mentor", an "example" ... Strong emotion in football after the death of the former president of OM
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