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The epidemic ebb continues in many countries, such as in France where the Louvre, the largest and most visited museum in the world reopens on Monday. However, the health crisis linked to the coronavirus continues to worry health authorities, especially in Guyana, which grazed on Saturday the 5,000 cases of Covid-19. "We are not far from the epidemic peak, which will happen in the coming days", said the prefect of Guyana, Marc Del Grande, Sunday on Europe 1. A worrying situation for the French border department of Brazil, second most affected with more than 64,000 deaths. In total, the pandemic has killed more than 530,000 people worldwide. Follow the situation live.
The main information to remember
- After more than three months of closure, the Louvre reopens on Monday, with all possible health precautions
- The National Federation of Firefighters denounces the management of the health crisis
- France records 29,893 coronavirus deaths
- The Covid-19 pandemic has killed more than 530,000 people worldwide
Reopening of the Louvre in post-Covid version
The Louvre Museum, the largest and most visited in the world, reopens on Monday on a minor note, with all possible precautions and without the many American and Asian tourists usual in this season. The coronavirus crisis has already caused "more than 40 million euros in losses" at the Louvre, announced its president and director, Jean-Luc Martinez, who expects three financially difficult years.
70% of the public establishment, or 45,000 m2, will be accessible. The busy areas, as well as Antiquities, especially Egyptian, will be open to the public. Places that are more complex to manage will remain closed for the time being. Time-stamped reservations have been open since June 15 on the internet and remain the preferred route to access the Louvre, but it will be possible to try your luck by coming on site if there are slots left free.
Visitors will have to bring their masks, will not have changing rooms or refreshments, and the routes will be signposted with no possible return, and any outing will be final. In front of the Mona Lisa, where tourists from all over the world flock to make "selfies", parking circles were stuck on the ground to avoid the rush.
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Firefighters denounce crisis management
An outdated health administration, prefects "relegated to the background", a saturated emergency number ... The National Federation of Firefighters, denounced, Sunday in a report to vitriol, the management of the epidemic of Covid-19. Revealed by Le Parisien, this document intended for the Ministry of the Interior "is not finalized and should not leak in the press", regretted with AFP the colonel Hugues Deregnaucourt, vice-president of the Federation.
The organization, which represents the 247,000 firefighters in France, however assumes the criticisms made in this particularly scathing document vis-à-vis the Ministry of Health and its Regional Health Agencies (ARS). "The prefects were blind for a long time, no information was sent down by the ARS territorial delegates," said Colonel Deregnaucourt.
The report also estimates that the hundreds of evacuations of patients in TGV or in helicopter, conceived to unclog the hospitals, were "pure operations of communication" and a "true blush".
Latest death toll of 29,893 in France
In France, the last assessment dates back to Friday evening. According to figures released by the Directorate of Health, the authorities had recorded 18 new deaths in 24 hours in hospitals, bringing to 29,893 the total number of deaths since the start of the epidemic. At the same time, the number of patients with Covid-19 in intensive care continued to drop, with 560 patients affected, 13 less than on Thursday.
A total of 7,990 people are hospitalized for this infection (125 new admissions, including 12 serious cases, but a balance of -158 in 24 hours). Since the start of the epidemic, 104,904 people have been hospitalized, including 18,415 in intensive care. 77,060 people returned home. The results were not updated on Saturday and Sunday.
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Nearly 5,000 cases in Guyana, patients transferred to the West Indies
"We are not far from the epidemic peak, which will happen in the coming days," said the prefect of Guyana, Marc Del Grande, on Sunday in Europe 1. Guyana was close to 5,000 cases on Saturday (4,913 cases, +355 cases in 24 hours), including 129 hospitalized patients, 23 in intensive care, and 16 deaths, pushing its three hospitals to trigger the "white plan" to deal with the accelerating epidemic. Guyana is currently the French department most affected by Covid-19.
In addition to the reinforcements of medical personnel sent on the spot, a military plane was also deployed to carry out medical evacuations of patients towards the Antilles. "Two have already been done, others are scheduled for Monday," said Marc Del Grande.
Reconfinement in Madagascar, and in the northwest of Spain
Two months after its deconfinement, Antananarivo, the capital of Madagascar, is again placed in containment, from Monday, due to a renewed spread of the coronavirus, announced Sunday the Madagascan presidency.
The same goes for the 70,000 inhabitants of a coastal region in Galicia, in north-west Spain. The latter are, since Sunday, again subject to containment measures due to an increase in contamination. The inhabitants of 14 localities will therefore not be able to leave the area, nor meet more than 10 people.
Over 530,000 dead worldwide
The pandemic has killed at least 531,789 people worldwide, according to a report compiled by AFP from official sources Sunday at 7:00 p.m. GMT. Over 11 million cases of infection have been diagnosed in 196 countries and territories. The United States is the most affected country, with 129,718 deaths. This is followed by Brazil (64,265), the United Kingdom (44,220) and Italy (34,861). On Saturday, Mexico also became the fifth country in the world most bereaved by the coronavirus with 30,366 deaths. This assessment now hoists it before France, which currently has 29,893 dead.
India recorded a record number of coronavirus cases on Sunday when a mass treatment center in New Delhi opened. The Ministry of Health reported just under 25,000 new cases and 613 deaths from coronavirus in 24 hours, the largest daily increase since the start of the pandemic in the country in late January. Following this record increase, India's death toll rises to more than 673,000 cases of coronavirus and at least 19,268 deaths. The country is on the verge of overtaking Russia, the third nation with the most Covid-19 infections, which confirmed on Saturday nearly 674,000 cases of Covid-19.
South Africa, for its part, has registered more than 10,000 new cases of coronavirus in the past 24 hours, a record that raises fears of an outbreak of infections in the country. In fact, 10,853 new cases were identified on Saturday.