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- According to the latest assessment in France, 28,239 people have died from Covid-19 since the start of the epidemic. The number of patients in intensive care units is still decreasing.
- President Trump caused an uproar by announcing that he was taking hydroxychloroquine as a preventive measure, in violation of the recommendations of the American health authorities.
- France will be able to use the European recovery plan of 500 billion euros, proposed by Emmanuel Macron and Angela Merkel, to "renovate the hospital" and support the sectors hit by the crisis.
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7:30 am: Towards a postponement of the referendum on independence in New Caledonia?
New Caledonian separatists said they were in favor of postponing the independence referendum scheduled for September 6 due to the disturbances linked to the coronavirus crisis .
For her part, the president of the South province Sonia Backès, a member of the non-independence right-wing, strongly opposed this request. She accused the separatists of "posture to put pressure on the state" and "an enterprise of destabilization" of New Caledonia.
7:15 am: In Nicaragua, the government accused of ordering “express burials” to hide the reality of the contamination
Doctors in the country warn of imminent worsening of the Covid-19 epidemic, according to the Ministry of Health, the Central American country has recorded only 25 contaminations for eight deaths since March 19 . The country is the only one in America that has neither adopted containment measures, closed its borders, nor suspended school due to the pandemic.
However, hospitals are facing an increasing influx of patients suffering from respiratory diseases. But the patients who died of "atypical pneumonia" are buried in sealed coffins during "express burials", without vigil or gathering.
In Chinandega, in the north-west of the country, considered to be the epicenter of the epidemic, hospitals are guarded by the police or men in civilian clothes to prevent journalists from approaching to film or interview relatives of the sick .
7 a.m .: Donald Trump announced that he was taking hydroxychloroquine
Although he has no symptoms of Covid-19, the President announced on Monday that he has been taking hydroxychloroquine as a preventive against coronavirus for a week and a half.
However, at the end of April, the American Medicines Agency (FDA) warned against using this antimalarial "outside of a hospital or clinical trials". In particular, she highlighted “the risk of heart rhythm disorders”.
Chuck Schumer, head of the Democratic minority in the Senate, denounced "dangerous" statements. "It gives people false hopes (...) and can even put them in danger," he said on MSNBC.
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