Coronavirus : Sanitation trains are not new
Point-of-view. The train has long been used to transport the sick and wounded to hospitals and pilgrims to Lourdes, as Bernard Aubin rightly reminds us in his chronicle.
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Coronavirus: fraud and global trafficking
France has ordered a billion protective masks from China to face the Covid-19 pandemic. But fraudsters and other crooks from all countries did not wait to manufacture and sell masks and counterfeit medicines, which are therefore dangerous.
Why do you have to wear a mask?
An open letter from Florence de Changy, a French journalist in Hong Kong to Martin Hirsch, Director of the Assistance Publique-Hôpitaux de Paris.
Coronavirus: “Operation Masks” the Great East needs you!
The President of the Grand Est Region, Jean Rottner, calls for collective and massive solidarity. He launches the operation “masks” to help the healthcare personnel and professionals exposed to the virus.
Coronavirus: 450 deaths in France, 105 in the Far East
As feared, the situation is worsening in the Region. The LRA and the Regional Prefecture call for full compliance with barrier and containment measures.
Coronavirus : France closed more than 4000 beds in 2018
While Covid-19 was settling permanently in China at the end of 2019, French healthcare personnel were mobilizing to save the public hospital. What a responsibility for politicians!
Coronavirus : special situation of the eastern border residents
The closure of borders linked to the fight against Covid-19 is impacting the daily lives of the 170,000 cross-border workers in the region. The point with Frontaliers Grand Est and the European Consumer Centre (ECC).
Coronavirus : cross-border workers in the Far East
Germany, Belgium and Luxembourg are taking protective measures that are worrying the 170,000 frontier workers in the Far East.
Covid-19 : Official speech by Emmanuel Macron on March 12, 2020.
Official speech by Emmanuel Macron on March 12, 2020 : United France is our best asset in the troubled period we’re going through with Covid-19. We will hold. All of us together.
Coronavirus: 25 deaths in France
The Chinese coronavirus is progressing in France with 1,412 confirmed cases, 286 more than yesterday and 25 deaths. In the Grand Est region there were 310 confirmed cases (+48 in 24 hours) and 4 deaths. Stock markets are collapsing.
French Language Week…
… and the French-speaking world, from March 14 to 22, 2020. It is a celebration of the French language in all its diversity.
Coronavirus : Reporters Without Borders appeals to Beijing
Where’s Chen? This has been the question for a month now for the family of Chinese freelance journalist Chen Qiushi, who was arrested on 6 February 2020 for covering the coronavirus crisis in the city of Wuhan. Reporters Without Borders condemns the Chinese authorities’ attitude.