In the press - Containment measures in Italy: "Everyone at home"

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In the press, this morning, this unprecedented decision, in Italy, the country most affected in the world by the coronavirus after China: the extension of isolation measures, to the whole territory.

"Tutti in casa": "Everyone at home": La Repubblica announces a national "shock treatment": the strict restriction, as of this morning, on the movements of 60 million Italians, who will not be able to leave their homes only in case of professional imperative, for the strict needs of daily life, or in case of emergency, for health reasons. According to Il Manifesto , Council President Giuseppe Conte has also decided to cancel all national sporting events, including the football championship, for at least three weeks. The draconian measures imposed in Italy, lead Il Fatto Quotidiano to look at what is happening elsewhere: meanwhile, notes the newspaper, "Donald Trump minimizes (the severity of the epidemic), declaring that last year, the flu has killed 37,000 people in the United States, that daily life and the economy must continue to move forward, "and" Emmanuel Macron goes to the theater "- alluding to his release last week from French president in a Parisian room.

Isolation measures were first imposed in the north of Italy alone. Under cover since Sunday, Milan, the economic capital of the country, is also the place of residence of many personalities, who testify in the Corriere della Sera of the way they live this period of confinement. The opportunity for the stylist Girogio Armani, to make this beautiful declaration of love to his city: “'I chose Milan in my youth, at the time when its reconstruction erased the rubble of the war. I chose Milan in the 70s when terrorism seemed to leave no respite / From my first studio, a two-room apartment on the ground floor of Corso Venezia, I could hear the processions pass as I tried to imagine ready-to-wear and the new company that would have interpreted it. I chose Milan to build life and work, the private and the public. And I continue to choose Milan because even when it trembles, it cannot be overwhelmed.

The spread of the coronavirus is partly responsible for the collapse in oil prices, the fall of which yesterday caused the world stock markets to fall yesterday. With a plunge of more than 7.5%, Wall Street yesterday recorded its biggest plunge since 2008, according to The Wall Street Journal , which explains this "chaos" by "the standoff between Saudi Arabia and Russia and Ryad's decision to drastically lower oil prices after the failure of its negotiations with Moscow on the strategy to adopt to cope with the decline in global demand. Very upbeat, the American financial daily accuses the crown prince of Saudi Arabia, Mohammed ben Salman, known as "MBS", of "harming the interests of his own country by harming those of his main geopolitical benefactor, the United States". The newspaper even asked President Trump to "pick up the phone to remind MBS which country is supporting him in his war in Yemen, in his confrontation with Qatar, and in the face of Iranian missile attacks." "MBS", whose decision to start an "oil price war", is also widely criticized by The Financial Times . According to the British financial daily, the American president reacted to the fall in prices yesterday by claiming that the drop in fuel prices was "good news for consumers" - counters the experts quoted by the newspaper as saying, them, that the plunge of the world stock markets involves a risk of recession in the United States and in the eurozone "in the six months to come".

"Black Monday: oil prices plunge, and the virus causes the markets to collapse": the Saudi daily Arab News quotes other experts, clearly more optimistic, according to whom "the carnage in the oil sector will not lead necessarily to a financial crisis. " The Arabic-speaking daily Asharq Al Awsat criticizes Russia's refusal to lower its production, accusing Vladimir Putin of trying to take advantage of "chaos" to gain market share, to the detriment of other oil producers.

The 2008 financial crisis is now on everyone's mind. The French economic daily Les Echos says however that it does not know whether the current crisis will be as "serious, violent, deadly, lasting. Or not ”- an uncertainty to which there would be only one possible answer:“ a strong and coordinated action of the great powers, in particular European ”. "An oil war that is interfering in the coronavirus crisis: it's too much for a single world, already full of uncertainty": the daily L'Opinion , another French daily, says it is baffled by the reactions of powerful on the planet: "While we wait for concerted action and mature decisions between experienced pilots to avoid a recession, the stewards grab each other while the plane is rocking all over again." "The coronavirus crisis should provoke a turning point towards a capitalism with a human face, through a response of global unity": in Hong Kong, The South China Morning Post calls on world leaders, notably American, Chinese, European and Japanese, to agree on a kind of "coordinated Marshall plan" to avoid recession and increase growth: "given the size of military budgets, the resources for such a strategy are available, pleads the newspaper. The domino effect of the coronavirus - to see to finish with a drawing by Dave Brown, for The Independent , showing the big bull of Wall Street panicked, caught in lasso by the little virus, which seems to be able to transform it on its own ... into a cow crazy woman.

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