Covid-19: inventory

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Healthcare workers testing for Covid-19 in Mumbai, August 17, 2020. Francis Mascarenhas / Reuters

By: Caroline Paré Follow

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While the million deaths caused by Covid-19 have just been exceeded, according to the count established by the World Health Organization, we are taking stock of the pandemic.

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Which countries are the most affected?

How is the response organized in these countries?

  • Pr Christophe Rapp,

    infectious disease

    specialist

    at the American Hospital of Paris (Neuilly) and president of the French society of travel medicine.

  • Stéphane Lagarde,

    permanent special correspondent of RFI, in Beijing

  • Dr Patrick Goldstein,

    Honorary President of the French Society of Emergency Medicine and Head of the Emergency Department and Northern SAMU at Lille University Hospital.

    (Lille is one of the French cities placed by the health authorities on heightened alert, like Paris, Lyon or Nice)

  • Dr Massamba Sassoum Diop,

    emergency doctor and president of SOS Médecins in Dakar, president of the Senegalese society of anesthesia, resuscitation and emergency medicine

At the end of the program, on the occasion of the National Meningitis Day, we take stock of these infections with

Dr Christophe Philippe

, pediatrician in Saint-Malo.

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