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What responses to the economic crisis triggered by the coronavirus? A European Council on Friday addresses the recovery plan of 750 billion euros to keep the affected economies afloat. In France, around 900,000 salaried jobs should be destroyed at the end of 2020 compared to the end of 2019, according to Unédic. However, the epidemic tension is weakening, with a number of people in intensive care still falling. Follow the situation live.
The main information to remember:
- European leaders to discuss economic recovery plan on Friday
- "900,000 salaried jobs" could be destroyed in one year, according to Unédic
- We must "consider" the risk of a second wave in the fall, says Delfraissy
- The coronavirus killed 29,603 people in France, and more than 450,000 worldwide
A European Council on the recovery plan at 750 billion euros
The heads of state and government meet Friday at a European videoconference council. With, on the menu of their discussions, a (very) big piece: the recovery plan for the European economy, proposed by the European Commission, of 750 billion euros. The German Chancellor would like to see an agreement on this recovery plan before the end of July. The European Parliament and the national parliaments would then have time to ratify this agreement as well as the next European Union Budget - of which it must be a member - "by the end of the year".
How many French jobs destroyed by the crisis in 2020?
This is one of the foreseeable consequences of the containment and the slowdown in activity: many jobs should be destroyed in France. On Thursday evening, Unédic, which manages the unemployment insurance scheme, indicated that it anticipated the destruction of 900,000 jobs at the end of 2020 compared to the 4th quarter of 2019. This would result in the compensation of 630,000 additional job seekers. According to its forecasts, Unédic will register a deficit of 25.7 billion euros at the end of 2020, of an "unprecedented scale", and a debt of 63.1 billion.
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The "risk" of a second wave "must be considered"
Before the deputies of the commission of inquiry on the management of the crisis, the president of the Scientific Council, Jean-François Delfraissy, warned: "The risk of a second wave, and not of a reappearance, coming from the "The southern hemisphere and returning north in late October, November or December is a risk that must be considered," he warned. But this should not lead the authorities to impose a new general containment, which would be "neither possible nor desirable".
The epidemic continues to decline, despite an alert in Normandy
According to the latest report published Thursday, the total number of deaths from the coronavirus amounts to 29,603 deaths in France since the start of the epidemic. 752 patients suffering from a severe form of coronavirus are hospitalized in intensive care, with a decrease of 20 patients compared to Wednesday. 10,125 people are hospitalized for a coronavirus infection, compared to 10,267 on Wednesday.
But at the same time, the Directorate General of Health (DGS) spoke of a rebound in the epidemic in Normandy. In this region, "the effective reproduction rate of the virus or R corresponding to the number of people that a positive case will contaminate, has notably exceeded the vigilance threshold set at 1", at 1.14. "This increase is explained by the detection of grouped cases or clusters in the south of the Rouen agglomeration, under management," warns the DGS.
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The 450,000 dead mark exceeded in the world
The new coronavirus pandemic has killed more than 450,000 people worldwide, a number that has doubled in a month and a half, according to a report drawn up by AFP from official sources on Thursday afternoon. A total of 450,004 deaths (for 8,395,929 reported cases) have been recorded worldwide since China officially reported the onset of the disease in December.
Europe is the region with the most deaths (190,120 for 2,469,242 cases), but it is now in Latin America that the epidemic is progressing most rapidly, with a total of 86,706 deaths for 1,840,488 cases. The United States is the most affected country with 117,717 dead, followed by Brazil (46,510 dead), the United Kingdom (42,153 dead), Italy (34,448 dead), and France (29,575 dead).
The resurgence of coronavirus in the Chinese capital is now "under control", assured health authorities on Thursday. The Ministry of Health has reported an additional 21 patients in the past 24 hours in Beijing, where thousands of residents are lining up to be screened. A total of 158 cases have been identified since last week.