The coronavirus pandemic is approaching 400,000 dead worldwide, accelerating its progression in Latin America, causing an economic crisis that has forced OPEC and Russia to agree to extend their restrictions on oil production.
The members of the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) and their allies within OPEC +, the first of which is Russia, agreed on Saturday to extend the reduction in production to one month by one month. since early May, according to the Minister of Energy of the United Arab Emirates.
The new coronavirus pandemic has killed at least 397,179 people worldwide since its onset in December in China, according to a report by AFP from official sources on Saturday at 7:00 p.m. GMT.
The spread of the virus has notably accelerated in Latin America. Brazil has been the third most bereaved country in the world since Thursday (35,930 deaths), behind the United States (109,791 deaths) and the United Kingdom with 40,465 deaths.
Despite this, the governor of Rio de Janeiro announced the relaxation of containment measures from Saturday. "The Covid-19 is a terrible thing, a lot of people have died, but I think there has been enough contamination for the curve to come back down. So it's time to open everything," said AFP. a 62-year-old Carioca, Rodolfo Pereira.
- Reopening of Machu Picchu -
The political situation is still tense in Brazil. Regional health officials accused the government of Jair Bolsonaro on Saturday of "making invisible" the dead of the coronavirus, after an official of the ministry for Health questioned the official assessment.
In Peru, which has officially more than 5,000 dead, the Machu Picchu site is developing protocols to reopen the Inca city, the country's tourist jewel, on July 1.
Peru, the second most affected country in Latin America by the coronavirus pandemic behind Brazil, is at the same time facing a shortage of medical oxygen.
And in Panama, the government on Saturday ordered a return to containment in the capital and a neighboring province after an outbreak of cases of new coronavirus, a week of relaxation of measures.
- Afghanistan worried -
Another hot spot is Afghanistan, a very poor country that is starting to run out of hospital beds.
"We have reports of suspicious deaths, of people burying bodies at night," said Kabul governor Mohammad Yakub Haidary. "We fill 10 to 15 body ambulances every day."
In Iran, from a low point reached on May 2, the rise in new identified cases of Covid-19 also worries the authorities, which have put an end to all rallies, be it marriage, mourning, or family visit, until "new order".
Other regions of the globe are now benefiting from a lull.
The national parks of South Africa, which welcome more than 6 million tourists each year, will reopen on Monday, after more than two months without visitors.
In Europe, life also takes back its rights. The lifting of restrictions continues on Saturday in France, where the epidemic is now "controlled", according to health authorities.
- Reopening of Versailles -
An emblematic place of the country and one of the most visited in the world, the Palace of Versailles, near Paris, reopened on Saturday after more than 82 days of confinement. With mandatory mask and limited number of visitors.
In Madrid, the Prado Museum has reopened, also for a limited number of visitors.
"I am very moved to be there again on reopening day, to be able to look at these paintings that I have missed so much," Alejandro Elizalde, an art history specialist, told AFP.
As for Denmark, it announced Saturday the reopening from Monday of its swimming pools and sports halls.
Ireland is also going to make relief on Monday, with the reopening of all shops, outside shopping centers, pending the end of travel restrictions on June 29.
On Saturday, from London to Sydney, thousands of people braved the pandemic - and defied the protective measures imposed - to demonstrate against racism and police brutality, an unprecedented worldwide outrage sparked by the death of George Floyd, asphyxiated by a white police at the end of May in Minneapolis.
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