IN FRANCE COVID-19 KILLED 24,895 PATIENTS WITH 166 ADDITIONAL DEADS IN 24 HOURS

USPA NEWS - COVID-19, which has caused a pandemic since the start of this epidemic, started in November 2020, from the Chinese city of Wuhan, has now spread all over the planet and causes the death of at least 243,637 deaths and a count of more than 2.8 million cases recorded in 195 countries and territories. The United States is by far the country that has the highest number of deaths from the pandemic, with 66,224 of these, since the start of the pandemic.

IN FRANCE THE COVID-19 KILLED 24,895 PEOPLE---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The coronavirus has made 166 additional deaths in France in the past 24 hours, bringing the total toll to 24,760 deaths since March 1, the ministry of health announced by press release. Among them, 15,487 deaths took place in hospitals and 9,273 in EHPAD (Nursing Homes). In total, 24,895 people have died in connection with the coronavirus since March 1, including 15,583 in hospitals and 9,312 in medico-social establishments, including Ehpad (Nursing Homes), according to the Ministry of Health. In the USA, COVID-19 has killed 1,453 in the past 24 hours, Johns Hopkins University announced on Saturday, bringing the total American death toll to more than 66,000.-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- At 8:30 p.m. local time on Saturday (12:30 a.m. GMT on Sunday), the university, the count of which refers, had recorded more than 1.1 million cases of COVID-19 infection and 66,224 deaths, for 1,121,414 cases. The United Kingdom counted Sunday 315 additional deaths due to the new coronavirus, bringing the total death toll to 28,446 in the country, the second most affected in Europe, announced the Minister of State Michael Gove. Italy announced Sunday the death in 24 hours of 174 patients of the coronavirus, the lowest number since the first day of confinement of the country, which must be relieved on Monday. It has killed nearly 29,000 people on the peninsula, according to official figures. Spain recorded Sunday in 24 hours 164 deaths from the new coronavirus, the lowest daily figure for almost seven weeks in this country which is gradually starting its lifting of lockdown, one of the strictest in Europe. According to figures released Sunday by the Ministry of Health, the total number of deaths due to the pandemic is now 25,264, making Spain the 4th most bereaved country in the world after the United States, Italy and the United Kingdom.

A DROP IN OCCUPANCY BEDS IN THE ICU SINCE 23 DAYS----------------------------------------------------------------------- The number of people with COVID-19 hospitalized in intensive care or intensive care in the Haut-Rhin, one of the departments most affected by the epidemic, fell back below 100 people on Sunday, according to Health data Public France. A total of 93 men and women are still hospitalized in the intensive care unit or in intensive care in the Haut-Rhin, but this number has decreased by nine compared to Saturday and has dropped below the hundred for the first time since March 24. It had reached up to 163 people on April 3. NEW PUBLIC HEALTH MEASURES AND SANITARY RECOMMENDATIONS-------------------------------------------------- France will impose a quarantine of 14 days, for travelers from abroad except except those from the EU, the Schengen area or the United Kingdom, and whatever their nationality, from the EU, a (source Elysée, Presidential Palace). During the Council of Ministers on Saturday May 2, the Minister of Health Olivier Veran had affirmed that the quarantine measures, provided for in the bill extending the state of health emergency, would apply "to persons entering national territory or arriving in an overseas territory "or in Corsica.

FRANCE IS IN LOCKDOWN SINCE MARCH 17 & MIGHT START EASING THE LOCKDOWN GRADUALLY ON MAY 11--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The government decided on Saturday, during a Council of Ministers, the extension for two months, until July 24, of the state of health emergency in France to fight against the pandemic of COVID-19, announced the Minister of Health Olivier Veran. Following this announcement, and that of "gradually" lifting the lockdown on May 11 (Decision of the President of the Republic Emmanuel Macron on April 13), the government is preparing to prepare especially for the resumption of school for the primary and colleges, but tensions are expressed on the part of the teachers' unions and also of lapping parents, who do not seem "ready to send their children to schools". In fact, even elected officials, 316 mayors, published a column in the newspaper Le Parisien to "solemnly ask the government to postpone the date of dismay" set for May 11. The government will have to clarify the concrete modalities of the lockdown´s lifting, in particular the puzzle of reopening of schools and the controversy over the sale of masks, which were recently announced to be available by the hundreds of millions in the stocks of super arches, would undermine them. sell at cost price. This has created controversy, and great suspicion on the part of caregivers who have suffered from the lack of brands and still at present facing this "sudden glut of masks" on the side of large shops in France. Moreover, the Minister of Health, Olivier Veran responded to the press to this controversy during the next press briefing to the Council of Ministers on May 2, promising a "state requisition of these masks from the supermarkets to supply them as a priority caregivers and vulnerable people “../