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  • Is it finally the long-awaited "plateau"? For the first time yesterday, the number of resuscitation admissions was lower than the number of exits. The coronavirus epidemic killed a total of 12,210 people in France, including 8,044 in hospitals and 4,166 in nursing homes.
  • In the rest of the world, almost 100,000 people have now died from Covid-19 and at least 1.6 million people have been infected. In the United States, almost half a million people are affected.
  • In Europe, EU countries have agreed on an emergency plan. No debt pooling but up to 240 billion euros in loans from the euro zone relief fund, a guarantee fund of 200 billion euros for businesses and up to 100 billion to support short-time working .

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The Netherlands no longer blocks, the 27 EU countries reach a common economic response

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Boris Johnson leaves intensive care but remains hospitalized

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8:28 a.m .: Details on the Europe Agreement

Who therefore does not understand debt pooling, thanks to coronabonds, for example, which has been talked about a lot in recent days.

Faced with the coronavirus, the EU achieves a common economic response https://t.co/6VwmJ5M1zV

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8:20 a.m .: Organic boom

The craze for products from organic farming has suffered neither from confinement nor from the coronavirus epidemic: sales are exploding, because the French intend to “eat better” during this period of health concern, but also for more down to earth reasons. “In my region, all organic producers who sell directly are robbed. »Philippe Henry, president of Agence Bio, and farmer on a Lorraine farm.

The same goes for Philippe Bramedie, president and founder of Comptoirs de la Bio, which brings together 150 independent stores. "Customers move around a little less in stores, we observe a drop in attendance of around 30 to 40% but which is largely offset by a near doubling of the average basket".

8:11 a.m .: Neighborhood problems for Matteo Salvini in Milan

We are really quiet nowhere when we are on the far right.

When during a live broadcast on his Milanese balcony (probably on FB), a neighbor shouts to Salvini: “Matteo, this is bullshit! »Https://t.co/9qhV7Q4XjA via @repubblica

- Anne Soetemondt (@annecha) April 10, 2020

8:02 a.m .: Liliane Marchais swept away by the Covid-19

The woman in the former French Communist leader died on Thursday in her Ehpad.

Liliane Marchais, widow of Georges Marchais, died of coronavirus https://t.co/D4aCxkq4LE

- 20 Minutes (@ 20Minutes) April 10, 2020

7:58 a.m .: No small profits

Even during the health crisis.

The Italian mafia helps selflessly the poorest https://t.co/XCYhdrc8ID

- 20 Minutes (@ 20Minutes) April 10, 2020

7:49 a.m .: 100,000 pandemic deaths soon

A total of 1,601,984 people were infected with the new coronavirus, according to John Hopkins University, which references. These are only tested and confirmed cases, of course. The actual number is probably much higher. According to the same source, 95,731 people died. Again, this is a minimum.

7:38 am: Finally an agreement

After an unsuccessful first meeting on Tuesday, then tense exchanges, the European finance ministers finally managed to agree on a common economic response to the coronavirus. "The meeting ended with the applause of the ministers," the spokesperson for the president of the Eurogroup announced on Twitter around 10 p.m.

The French Minister of Finance, Bruno Le Maire, welcomed him an "excellent agreement", including "500 billion euros available immediately" and "a stimulus fund to come". Faced with the pandemic, the European response must focus on three main areas: up to € 240 billion in loans from the euro zone relief fund, a guarantee fund of € 200 billion for businesses and up to 100 billion to support partial unemployment. But no pooling of debts, no coronabonds…

7:30 a.m .: Near agreement

A deal was on hand Friday after a crucial meeting of oil-exporting countries, Saudi Arabia and Russia in mind, for a massive drop in production to stem the fall in prices. A press release from the Organization of the Petroleum Producers (OPEC), published after eleven hours of discussions by videoconference, announced a prior agreement on a reduction in world supply by 10 million barrels of crude per day in May and June.

However, there remains an obstacle: a non-cartel country, Mexico, has not given its approval. However, it is essential to ratify a decision commensurate with the crisis that is hitting the sector in these times of the global coronavirus pandemic.

7:23 a.m .: A first case in Yemen, a country at war

Yemen announced on Friday the first case of contamination with the new coronavirus, in the province of Hadramout (south) controlled by the government, announced the health authorities.

"The first confirmed case of coronavirus was identified in the province of Hadramout," said the government's national emergency commission on Covid-19 on Twitter. Humanitarian organizations have warned of the potentially catastrophic impact of a coronavirus epidemic in this country ravaged by five years of war between rebels and Yemeni troops backed by Saudi Arabia.

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