France eased lockdown further and staged its annual music festival on Sunday, with music returning to cafes and street corners. "The pandemic is still accelerating," WHO's director general Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus told the virtual health forum organised by Dubai in the United Arab Emirates. "We know that the pandemic is much more than a health crisis, it is an economic crisis, a social crisis and in many countries a political crisis. "We cannot defeat this pandemic with a divided world," he said. Thousands of French danced and partied well into Monday for an annual music festival, in the first big blow out since the lockdown.

Source: Bangkok Post June 22, 2020 12:45 UTC