Austria, Sweden, Denmark and the Netherlands submitted a counter proposal to the German-French initiative for a European Union reconstruction plan to address the repercussions of the Corona virus crisis. With
HIV cases increased to 5.25 million, deaths to 338,265 in the world,
China announced that it had not registered new cases of corona, for the first time since the pandemic began.
In detail, the four financially conservative countries support the establishment of a unique emergency fund to boost the European Union's economy to face the repercussions of the Corona crisis.
A statement from the Austrian Chancellery said yesterday that it is especially important for countries to limit the time period for this emergency assistance to two years.
In the counter-proposal, which has already been announced several times, the four countries make it clear that they will not agree to an exchange of debt and an increase in the EU budget.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel and French President Emmanuel Macron finally presented a 500 billion euro ($ 545 billion) scenario for a recovery plan after the Corona virus (Covid-19) pandemic.
The thrust of this perception is that the European Commission should collect funds as loans in the capital market, and be distributed as grants through the European Union budget.
The most affected countries, such as Italy and Spain, as well as the affected commercial sectors, can obtain grants, but in order to do so all 27 member states must agree.
Austrian Chancellor Sebastian Kurz has strongly criticized this perception, in multiple dialogues and meetings over the past few days.
"We say clearly yes to emergency aid for the Coruna virus, but what we reject is a debt union through the back door," he said in an intervention at the online party congress of the conservative Bavarian Christian Social Party in southern Germany.
According to the counter proposal, the European Union should raise funds for the emergency fund in financial markets and pass it to member states as loans at low interest rates.
The funds should be used for reconstruction, to recover the health and economic sectors in the future.
The four countries, which call themselves the "Four Economists", did not specify a maximum scope for the financial aid fund.
While the number of confirmed cases of infection with the Corona virus worldwide increased yesterday to 5251917 cases, according to data collected by Johns Hopkins University, Bloomberg News reported that the virus caused 338,265 deaths.
During the past 24 hours, the United States recorded 1,260 additional deaths from the emerging coronavirus, in a daily toll that is considered constant compared to the previous day.
In total, 95,921 people have died from the virus in the United States, out of about 1.6 million infections diagnosed since the outbreak began.
US President Donald Trump called on US state governors to allow places of worship to be reopened "immediately", despite the emerging Corona virus.
Trump said at a White House press conference:
“If they do not comply, I will bypass the rulers,” he said, without explaining how he did so, knowing that the decision to reopen places of worship depends on the authorities of each state.
In Rio de Janeiro, the Ministry of Health said that Brazil has become the second largest hot spot for cases of coronavirus in the world, after the United States, after it confirmed that 330,890 people were infected with the virus, bypassing Russia.
The number of confirmed cases of coronavirus in Britain rose to 255,544. The number of deaths rose to 36,475, while the number of people recovered reached 1,142.
Yesterday, the number of confirmed cases of the newly infected Corona virus in France reached 218,679.
The number of deaths due to infection with the virus in France reached 28218, while the number of people recovering reached 64,209 cases.
The number of confirmed cases of coronavirus in Germany reached 179,710 yesterday. The number of "Coffid-19" deaths in Germany reached 8228, while the number of people recovering from the disease reached 159,64 people.
In Italy, the number of confirmed cases of infection with the Corona virus rose to 228,658, and the number of deaths reached 32,616.
In Moscow, the Russian Federation announced that 9,434 new infections with the newly created Corona virus (Covid-19) had been recorded in the past 24 hours. Meanwhile, the National Health Commission of China announced that no new confirmed cases of "Covid-19" disease will be recorded on the mainland on Friday, becoming the first time that a daily increase in the number of cases has not been recorded since the start of the pandemic in Wuhan, central China. Late last year.
In a statement yesterday, the committee said that this is in exchange for four new cases that were recorded on Thursday. However, she said, two new suspected cases have been registered: one from abroad, in Shanghai, and the other, locally transmitted, in northeast China's Jilin Province.