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  • France has recorded 28 additional Covid-19 deaths in hospitals in the past 24 hours, while the number of ICU patients continues to decline, with 772 patients.
  • The WHO made the decision Wednesday to stop clinical trials on hydroxychloroquine as a potential treatment for hospitalized Covid-19 patients, concluding that this antimalarial did not reduce their mortality rate.
  • In Beijing, the resumption of the epidemic worries the authorities, which on Wednesday canceled more than a thousand flights and closed the schools, at the time when more than a hundred cases were detected around one of the most big markets of Asia.

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7:37 am: WHO stops testing on hydroxychloroquine

According to her, this antimalarial does not reduce their mortality rate. "The internal evidence from the Solidarity / Discovery Trial, the external evidence from the Recovery Trial and the combined evidence from these two largely randomized trials, put together, suggests that hydroxychloroquine - when compared with the usual treatment of inpatients for Covid-19 does not result in reduced mortality in these patients, "said Dr. Ana Maria Henao Restrepo, of WHO, during a virtual press conference at Geneva.

However, it stressed that the decision to stop the trials on hospital patients with Covid-19 did not concern the use or evaluation of this molecule as a preventive treatment for disease caused by the new coronavirus.

7:17 am: No more school at home! All students back to school on Monday (except high school students)

The new protocol from the Ministry of National Education, scheduled for 2 p.m., finally arrived late in the evening. Proof of the complexity of the subject. All kindergarten, primary and middle school students will have to go back to school on Monday, with reduced health rules for the little ones and more flexible in middle school.

In detail: the rules of physical distance in nursery school will be abolished. In elementary school, we will try to "enforce a meter" between the students, according to the Minister of Education. However, he hinted that accommodations would be possible: in some classes, "we will have to have a little less than a meter". They must also be maintained at the college, and if it is impossible to respect these distances, students must wear a mask.

Who wants to know the long awaited new health protocol for the resumption of class on the 22nd? Https: //t.co/oT2VfkJdpr via @ 20minutes

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