The optimism displayed in France and Italy needs to be qualified on a European and even global scale. The United States has just experienced the worst daily toll since the start of the epidemic. In France, measures to avoid a relaxation of containment are increasing.
The latest assessment of the Covid-19 epidemic in France reports 110,070 confirmed cases for 10,328 deaths . The authorities have recorded 7,091 deaths in hospitals and therefore 607 more in the past 24 hours. A vagueness remains on the real assessment in nursing homes and other medico-social establishments, but a vast screening operation will be carried out today in around fifty establishments.
While the prospect of deconfinement does exist, the authorities have recalled that there is no question of tackling the way out of the crisis now. It's about not pretending that everything is over, at the risk of generating a relaxation within the population. One of the first conditions to be met is a drop in intensive care patients, which is therefore not yet the case.
A few new measures have appeared here and there in order to maintain the mobilization of the population in this fourth week of confinement. In Paris, for example, it is now forbidden to jog between 10 a.m. and 7 p.m.
We announced it, the United States was preparing to experience its most difficult moment this week. This resulted on April 7, 2020 in the death of 1,939 people in 24 hours, the worst toll since the start of the Covid-19 epidemic. The latest official report reports 12,844 deaths for almost 400,000 cases.
You should know that the main focus of the epidemic in the United States remains New York State. The death toll is 5,500, including 731 in 24 hours, again a sad new record. Separately, the state has about 140,000 cases, mostly in New York City.
The total deaths in the United States are catching up with those of Italy and Spain. These two countries have a death toll of respectively 17,127 and 14,045 deaths for 135,586 and 141,942 confirmed cases . It should also be noted that Spain has overtaken Italy in the number of cases. If the situation in Germany is still as much under control (107,663 cases / 2,016 deaths), that of the United Kingdom is alarming (55,949 / 6,159).
The global toll of the pandemic is more than 1.43 million cases for more than 82,000 deaths . Moreover, the number of people cured has exceeded 300,000.
