Paris (AFP)

New assessments, new measures, highlights: an update on the latest developments in the Covid-19 pandemic, which killed more than 369,000 people worldwide.

- Over six million cases -

The pandemic has killed at least 369,086 people worldwide since its onset in December in China, according to an assessment by AFP from official sources Sunday at 11:00 GMT.

The United States is the most heavily affected country in absolute terms, with 103,781 deaths. This is followed by the United Kingdom (38,376), Italy (33,340), Brazil (28,834), France (28,771) and Spain (27,125).

But as a proportion of the population, excluding micro-states, it is in Belgium that mortality is the highest (817 deaths per million inhabitants), ahead of Spain (580), the United Kingdom (565), Italy (551), France (441), Sweden (435), the Netherlands (347), Ireland (334) and the United States (313).

- Trump postpones the G7 -

President Donald Trump has announced that he will postpone the June G7 summit in the United States to an unspecified date. It could take place in the fall in a version extended to other countries such as Russia, South Korea, Australia and India.

Leaders were originally scheduled to meet by videoconference in late June due to the coronavirus epidemic, but Trump had hoped last week that the summit would finally take place in the White House. German Chancellor Angela Merkel was the first leader of the group to formally decline this invitation.

- Refusal to deconfigure -

Four of the nine regions of Bolivia, including the one most affected by the Santa Cruz de la Sierra coronavirus, have announced that they will extend containment measures, contrary to government decisions to revive the country's economy. The Bolivian executive had decided to lift from Monday certain restrictions in force since March.

- "Better or worse" -

"Everything will be different" after the pandemic, from which humanity will emerge "better or worse", warned the French Pope Saturday evening in a video message on the occasion of the feast of Pentecost. He called for a "fairer and more equitable society".

- The esplanade of the Mosques reopens -

In Jerusalem, the esplanade of the Mosques reopened Sunday after two months of closure due to a pandemic. During the past ten weeks, the muezzins had called the faithful to pray, but at home, even during the holy month of Ramadan which ended last week.

- Bolsonaro wants soccer -

Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro, a great defender of containment measures, wants to resume football championships in his country where the sport is king. According to him, since footballers are "young and athletic", the risk that they die from Covid-19 is "infinitely reduced".

Brazil is now, along with the United States, the country with the heaviest daily reports of coronavirus victims.

- Concert at the windows -

A hotel in Vienna has transformed its rooms into opera houses and its courtyard into a stage for an evening, for a rare concert, while Austrian cultural life remains at a standstill because of the restrictions imposed to combat the coronavirus.

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