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  • There are only 879 people hospitalized in intensive care in France. You have to go back to March 17, the day of confinement, to find a lower total. The decline is still not dependent, one month after the start of deconfinement.
  • The third stage of deconfinement must begin in France in nine days. The President of the Republic, who is due to make a speech on Sunday evening, is expected to turn after having left the field open to the Prime Minister for weeks.
  • Worldwide, more than 7.6 million people have been affected by the new coronavirus. More than 425,000 of these people died, including 115,000 in the United States, still the most battered country.

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8:35 am: Brazil second most bereaved country

Brazil on Friday became the second country in the world most grieving by the Covid-19 pandemic behind the United States. With 41,828 deaths recorded since the beginning of the epidemic, Brazil has surpassed the United Kingdom in the number of deaths from the coronavirus. The largest country in Latin America, a giant of 212 million inhabitants, is also the second largest in number of infections recorded behind the United States, with 828,810 cases.

"The situation in Brazil is worrying, all states are affected," said Mike Ryan, director of health emergencies at the World Health Organization (WHO), on Friday. "The health system is not completely saturated, but in some regions there is a strong pressure on the occupation of intensive care beds," he added.

8:22 am: Reconfinement in Beijing

Eleven residential areas in southern Beijing are under containment due to the appearance of a new outbreak of coronavirus in a nearby market, authorities said on Saturday. Seven cases of Covid-19 contamination have been identified in the vicinity of the Xinfadi market, including six on Saturday, according to health authorities. Nine surrounding schools and kindergartens have been closed.

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