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Two days after the start of deconfinement, France is gradually resuming its habits. And is still looking to turn around its economy hit by the coronavirus crisis. This is the reason why the executive, embodied by Emmanuel Macron and Édouard Philippe, brings together unions and employers at the Élysée on Thursday.
On the health side, the controversy continues around hydroxychloroquine, while the World Health Organization has decided to resume clinical trials using this molecule. Follow the situation live.
The main information to remember:
- Macron and Philippe bring unions and employers together at the Élysée
- Hydroxychloroquine continues to be talked about as WHO announces resumption of clinical trials
- In France, more than 29,000 people died from the coronavirus
- Over 380,000 people have died worldwide
Unions and employers received at the Élysée
How to raise the French economy, hit hard by the epidemic of coronavirus and containment? Emmanuel Macron and Edouard Philippe unite unions and employers on Thursday to find solutions to preserve jobs. In addition, Emmanuel Macron, who has promised to "reinvent himself", will intensify his consultations in order to "make proposals to the French" between the second round of municipal elections on June 28 and July 14, the Élysée said.
Will France re-authorize trials with hydoxychloroquine?
While the prestigious medical journal The Lancet has distanced itself from the much-criticized study it published on hydroxychloroquine, acknowledging in a formal warning that "important questions" hovered over it, the WHO announced to resume clinical trials on hydroxychloroquine.
In France, for the moment, no back pedaling from the health authorities who have also called to abandon hydroxychloroquine. The Minister of Health Olivier Véran wrote to The Lancet to ask the review "a rereading of the raw data as they were delivered" on the molecule.
Consent not collected: Didier Raoult defends himself
Professor Didier Raoult, fervent defender of the use of hydroxychloroquine, finds himself pinned by the National Medicines Agency. This time, it is not the effectiveness of its treatment against the coronavirus itself, which is blamed, but the conditions under which its tests were carried out. According to information from the Duck in chains , the Marseille prosecutor's office received a report calling into question the legal framework of its research. The patients were "of course" aware of the content of the treatment, he replied on Wednesday evening on Europe 1.
Ligue 1: appeals to the Council of State
It is an important day for French football: the Council of State examines Thursday appeals from Lyon, Amiens and Toulouse, clubs that protest against the forced end of the Ligue 1 season, pronounced at the end of April. This is a new episode after three months of great tension in French football, which has torn around the fate of the hexagonal championship.
More than 29,000 dead in France, resuscitation down
The coronavirus has killed more than 29,000 people, according to the latest assessment from the Directorate General of Health published Wednesday evening. The increase is 81 dead in French hospitals, bringing the total to 18,671 in hospital and 10,350 in social and medico-social establishments (Ehpad), whose tuesday Tuesday will be updated Tuesday, June 9.
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1,210 patients with coronavirus are hospitalized in intensive care (against 1,501 a week ago), with a negative balance of 43 discharges in 24 hours. 13,514 people are hospitalized for a coronavirus infection (compared to 15,680 a week ago).
Over 380,000 dead worldwide, the American continent worried
The coronavirus pandemic has killed at least 382,016 people worldwide since its onset in December in China, according to a report compiled by AFP from official sources on Wednesday evening. More than 6,440,940 cases of infection have been officially diagnosed in 196 countries and territories since the start of the epidemic, of which at least 2,768,700 are now considered cured.
The United States, which recorded its first death linked to the coronavirus in early February, is the country most affected in terms of number of deaths and cases, with 106,696 deaths for 1,841,471 cases. At least 463,868 people were declared cured. After the United States, the most affected countries are the United Kingdom with 39,728 deaths for 279,856 cases, Italy with 33,601 deaths (233,836 cases), Brazil with 31,199 deaths (555,383 cases), and France with 29,021 deaths (188,674 cases).
China (excluding the territories of Hong Kong and Macao), where the epidemic began at the end of December, officially counted a total of 83,021 cases, including 4,634 deaths and 78,314 cures. The situation is particularly worrying in Brazil, which now borders on 30,000 dead. Other Latin American countries continue to see an expansion of the disease. In Mexico, the balance sheet crossed Monday the threshold of 10,000 dead even as the country also begins the resumption of its economic activity.