[EN DIRECT 5 SEPTEMBRE 2020] All developments in the COVID-19 pandemic

Whether in Quebec or elsewhere on the planet, the COVID-19 pandemic is disrupting our lives.

Here you will find all the news throughout the day related to this crisis affecting the population, governments and the economy.

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Dead: 9139

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Case: 63 117

Dead: 5768

All the news for Friday, September 4, 2020

8:10 am | Coronavirus: India is the third country to cross the four million case mark.

India has become the third country in the world to cross the barrier of four million cases of coronavirus, with a new record on Saturday in the country where the pandemic does not appear to be abating.

With 86,432 new cases recorded on Saturday, India has 4,023,179 infections, coming just behind the United States (over 6.3 million) and Brazil (4.1 million).

While the government has eased restrictions, India is currently the country with the fastest growing number of cases, with more than 80,000 per day, and the highest number of daily deaths at over a thousand.

In just thirteen days, the second most populous nation on the planet has gone from three to four million cases, faster than the United States or Brazil.

The pandemic is now spreading in rural areas with insufficient health infrastructure and at the same time resurfacing in major cities like New Delhi and Bombay.

The state of Maharashtra, which includes Bombay, has been at the center of the crisis since a national lockdown declared in late March. Almost a quarter of new daily cases are recorded there.

Shamika Ravi, economics professor and former government adviser who has been following India’s pandemic trends closely, said the country “is far” from peaking and Maharashtra must become the “center” of the campaign against the coronavirus.

TO READ | A new study published in the prestigious Nature confirms that the immune response of women to the coronavirus responsible for COVID-19 is greater than that of men and makes them less likely to develop serious complications from the disease.

TO READ | The peak of the second wave of COVID-19 could be up to 100 times higher in areas that were little affected last spring, according to a document from the Public Health Agency of Canada.

TO READ | The Medicine Race: Normal Life Will Return.

1h00 | In the pubs of Dunmore, the glasses of Guinness gather dust and the barrels doze off. Sobriety and boredom have gripped the locals, which the coronavirus is robbing of the heart of social life in rural Ireland.

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