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On the front page of the press, the concern of economic circles facing the spread of the coronavirus.
After the spectacular losses recorded on Monday and those, of lesser scale, suffered yesterday by the financial centers, the coronavirus fever is gaining finance, alarmed by the fallout of the epidemic on world growth. "The contaminated economy": according to the French daily Liberation , "everything will depend, from now on, on the duration of the alert", in front of which the newspaper calls everyone to be "cool". Slowdown in industrial and commercial activity, a virus that is gripping the financial machine: according to The Financial Times , "Westerners are going into high gear to contain the virus", at a time when "investors are still going backwards", thus fueling in their turn risks of recession. Economic slowdown, hectic markets, and "confusion" of authorities facing the spread of the virus in Europe, according to The Guardian . The British daily newspaper notes that the countries of the European Union however dismiss for the moment, the idea of a possible reinstatement of controls and especially the closing of borders - two measures that scientists, it will be recalled, consider not to be adequate responses to combat the spread of Covid-19.
The coronavirus now affects several European countries. With eleven deaths announced this morning, Italy is the most affected, the virus now spreading to Tuscany and Sicily, after Lombardy and Veneto. "Italy? No thanks ”: La Repubblica is already talking about a 40% drop in tourist activity. In Spain, El Mundo announces "stronger controls" in the face of the spread of the coronavirus, with four additional cases of contamination identified in Madrid, Barcelona, Castellon and Tenerife, where a thousand people are still quarantined in a hotel. Among these tourists, hundreds of Britons, according to The Daily Star - who, suddenly, sends from them this fictitious and ironic postcard: "How we wish we were not there!". The British tabloid also reports the closure of 10 schools in the United Kingdom, to prevent the spread of the virus. In France, "the mobilization is going up (also) a notch", according to Les Echos - who quote the warning from the new Minister of Health: according to Olivier Véran, the occurrence of an epidemic in France would no longer be that a "question of time".
Also on the front page this morning, tension is still high in the northeast of the Indian capital, New Delhi, which has been plagued by violence since Sunday. "For the third day in a row, the violence continues," headlines The Hindu , which reports 13 dead and 150 injured since Sunday due to clashes between supporters and opponents of the citizenship law. The newspaper speaks of "community" violence, recalling that the text, deemed Islamophobic by its detractors, has been at the heart of a large movement of demonstrations since December. "Delhi is burning, as frantic gangs take to the streets": The Deccan Chronicle , which accuses the police of having "abdicated" in the face of violence, nevertheless reports testimony from police, who assure that orders have been given to them to "shoot on sight" on the troublemakers. Violence that also targets journalists who are trying to report on what is happening in the Indian capital.
Many women, finally, this morning, devoted to the former Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak, who died yesterday in Cairo at the age of 91 years. The disappearance of the former head of state, ousted from power in 2011 by the Arab Spring, made the headlines of all the Egyptian press, including Al Masry Al Youm , who announced a military funeral for today and a three-day national mourning in tribute to the "hero of the war in October 1973". It is also a tribute to the Emirati newspaper The National , which salutes the memory of a "formidable soldier from the Middle East", who became a politician who ruled Egypt for almost 30 years. In France, L'Humanité recalls, for its part, that "Mubarak died without having given an account to the Egyptians", that the former head of state mainly counted to his credit "a restriction of civil liberties, almost ban on assembly and a development of arbitrary arrests and imprisonment without charge ”. Al Araby al Jadeed , finally, evokes both "the death of Mubarak and the pursuit of despotism" in Egypt. "His death does not mean the end of the devastation of which Mubarak was a symbol," writes the London Pan-Arab daily.
A word, before you leave, about the mishap that happened to Kaia Rolle, a 6-year-old American schoolgirl. Her family's lawyer shared a video on Monday of the little girl crying and begging a police officer not to arrest her. The arrest, including handcuffs, took place last September, according to The Guardian , which reports that the girl was arrested for kicking and punching staff at her school in Orlando, USA. Florida...
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