In China, where the epidemic is officially appeared in December in the city of Wuhan, the 3,000 deputies of the national people's Assembly (NPA) will, meanwhile, meet from Friday for the grand annual mass of the communist regime, the"opportunity" for the president Xi Jinping "to proclaim the total victory in the 'people's war' against the virus," predicts political scientist Diana Fu, University of Toronto, Canada. And even if this country fears a second wave after the resurgence of the Covid-19 in some places these last few weeks.

On the planet, the number of cases of contamination officially diagnosed has doubled in a month to nearly 5.05 million, among which nearly 330,000 deaths, according to a count by AFP on Thursday evening. If this balance sheet is probably largely under-evaluated, the data collected from official sources reveal an acceleration in the number of new cases, especially over the last ten days.