Paris (AFP)

New assessments, new measures, highlights: an update on the latest developments in the Covid-19 pandemic.

- France finds its cafes -

In France, cafes, restaurants, colleges and high schools have reopened in most of the country, with strict sanitary rules. But only the terraces were able to reopen in the orange zone, the most affected by the virus: the Paris region, Guyana and Mayotte.

All French people can now travel more than 100 km from home. Beaches, museums, monuments or theaters can also reopen, except in the orange zone.

- More than 379,000 dead -

The pandemic has killed at least 379,585 people worldwide since its onset in December in China, according to a report compiled by AFP from official sources Tuesday at 12:30 GMT.

The United States is the most affected country with 106,180 deaths. This is followed by the United Kingdom with 39,369 deaths, Italy (33,530), Brazil (31,199) and France (28,940).

In Mexico, the coronavirus killed more than 10,000 people and Russia passed Tuesday the milestone of 5,000 deaths.

- United Kingdom: 48,000 dead attributed to Covid-19 -

More than 48,000 people have died in the United Kingdom with a suspected or proven cause of the new coronavirus, according to figures from the National Bureau of Statistics (ONS) establishing a heavier toll than that of health authorities.

- "Abyssal losses" -

The world economy is facing "abysmal losses" and the recovery will be hampered by the lack of funds to repair the damage caused by the pandemic, warned World Bank President David Malpass, whose institution has already disbursed $ 160 billion in emergency aid to over 100 states.

- Affected growth -

Russia unveiled Tuesday a recovery plan estimated at 65 billion euros to achieve sustainable growth in late 2021.

In France, the government is forecasting a deep recession this year, with a historic gross domestic product (GDP) drop of 11%.

- Maduro-Guaido Agreement -

The government of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro and opposition leader Juan Guaido have reached an agreement to jointly search for funds to fight the coronavirus in Venezuela.

- Containment issues -

South African justice has ordered the government to review certain measures decided within the framework of containment, considering that they violated the freedoms guaranteed by the Constitution.

In Nicaragua, while patients overwhelm hospitals, doctors called for voluntary confinement in the face of "denial" from the authorities.

Authorities in the Bolivian cities of La Paz and El Alto will mark the homes of coronavirus patients with signs who refuse to confine themselves, in the face of numerous violations of sanitary measures by infected people.

- Air bridges? -

British government is considering establishing air bridges with certain countries, which would make it possible to avoid many travelers entering the United Kingdom from observing the quarantine, dreaded by the professionals of tourism

- Back to the beach in Rio -

Rio de Janeiro applied the first measures of a gradual return to activity plan on Tuesday, while Brazil is still in an ascending phase of the pandemic. Religious ceremonies can resume and individual water sports are again allowed on the beaches.

- Senegal: postponed return to school -

The Senegalese authorities have postponed the return to school of hundreds of thousands of students, only a few hours before the deadline scheduled for Tuesday morning, citing the discovery of the contamination of ten teachers in Casamance (south).

Security forces in Zimbabwe have barred the center of the capital, Harare, from thousands of people to enforce pandemic prevention measures.

- "Endemic racial discrimination" in the USA -

Pandemic and protests over the death of George Floyd, a black man asphyxiated by a white policeman during his arrest, highlight "endemic racial discrimination" in the United States, said the UN High Commissioner human rights.

"This virus reveals endemic inequalities that have been ignored for too long," said Michelle Bachelet.

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