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- There have been fewer than 100 Covid-19 deaths in France yesterday (+96), for a total of 27,625 dead since the start of the crisis. The decline continues in intensive care units: 2,132 hospitalizations (-71).
- While France is experiencing its first weekend of deconfinement, Italy has decided to reopen its borders to nationals of the European Union on June 3, without quarantine.
- In total, worldwide, 311,824 people have officially died from Covid-19, 4,635,830 cases have been confirmed. The United States is still the most affected country with 88,754 deaths and deaths.
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8:39 a.m .: Audacity
Today is World Day Against Homophobia and Transphobia (IDAHOT) and, in Poland, a couple of men have decided to create masks in the colors of the rainbow flag. Bold in a country now known for its areas declared "anti-LGBT" or "without LGBT".
Gay couple Dawid and Jakub are fighting prejudice - and #coronavirus - with rainbow masks in Poland. #IDAHOBIT # IDAHOBIT2020 pic.twitter.com/8Xv2RdGl5G
- Openly 🏳️🌈 (@Openly) May 17, 20208:30 a.m .: They want to vote from June 21 or 28
"Democracy can not be confined any longer": 36 mayors of big cities, including Anne Hidalgo (Paris) and Christian Estrosi (Nice), call to organize the second round of municipal elections in June, in a forum published in L e Sunday newspaper . "Let us not transform the sanitary confinement into a democratic confinement which would be harmful to the future of France and let us organize the second round of the municipal elections from June", urge the signatories, among whom are François Rebsamen (Dijon), Nicolas Florian (Bordeaux), Stéphane Le Foll (Le Mans) or the LR candidate in Marseille Martine Vassal.
According to these elected officials, the rapid organization of the ballot is necessary because "millions of French people are waiting to have a mayor, a municipal and community team in place, capable of making crucial decisions for our schools, our transport, our jobs". In fact, around 5,000 municipalities are waiting for this second round. The 30,000 others in France who elected their mayor in the first round on March 15.
8:21 a.m .: We screen in Russia
Russia, the second country in the world in number of contaminations with more than 270,000 cases, has chosen the strategy of an all-round screening of the population. On Saturday, the authorities boasted that they had carried out 6.6 million tests since the start of the pandemic.
This strategy aims to identify and isolate asymptomatic cases of coronavirus, which represent slightly less than half of infections in Russia. It also explains, according to the authorities, the low death rate in the country: more than 2,500 victims, although some doubt the veracity of these statistics.
Hello Hello ! It’s the 20 minute Sunday Coronavirus live . Even if it is the first weekend of deconfinement, we are always there to inform you, and sometimes to relax you a little. Here Rachel Garrat-Valcarcel until 5 p.m., then Jean-Loup Delmas, to serve you.
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