Suburbs Defy Containment
Scenes of urban violence have been occurring since 18 April in several cities in the Paris region. Explanations with Me Gérald Pandelon, specialist in criminal cases.
Scenes of urban violence have been occurring since 18 April in several cities in the Paris region. Explanations with Me Gérald Pandelon, specialist in criminal cases.
Five lawyers, two local councillors and a doctor have just created the “Association Grand Est d’aide aux victimes du Covid-19”. To address the legal consequences of the epidemic. A first in France.
A new pathophysiological theory now prevails in the medical community: patients would be treated for viral pneumonia when they should be treated for vascular disorders. Explanations.
The hitherto unpublished initiative consists in testing each of the 7,500 inhabitants of the city of Saint-Nicolas-de-Port, in Meurthe-et-Moselle, in the perspective of deconfinement.
They no longer have a job, so rather than lamenting, these journalists set up the association SOS TISSU. The idea is to make overcoats for hospital doctors.
A survey by the Union of Nursing Professionals shows that nurses lack everything: masks, hydro-alcoholic gel, over-blouses etc. The SNPI spokesman, Thierry Amouroux, speaks of a “state scandal”.
The Eminence group, which specialises in men’s underwear, is participating in its own way in the fight against Covid-19. It has just offered masks to personnel exposed to the virus in particular shapes that some do not want to wear.
Contrary to the assertions of a regional president in the south of France, the masks hijacked in China were not hijacked to the detriment of the Great East. In Lyon, masks destined for Spain were requisitioned by France.
An innovative Nancy-based company, Harmonic Pharma, is working on repositioning existing drugs to treat Covid-19. Several molecules have already been selected. Explanations with Dr Sinan Karaboga.
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.
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.
An open letter from Florence de Changy, a French journalist in Hong Kong to Martin Hirsch, Director of the Assistance Publique-Hôpitaux de Paris.