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By Chiara Burtolo
April 05, 2021 The government said the increase in testing "will help prevent epidemics and help us to reclaim a more normal lifestyle," the Times said.
"PM hopes for mass testing," the headline says.
In the meantime, let's start with the UK, the country that has become a symbol of the success of the vaccination campaign.
Yesterday the deaths from covid were just 10, the lowest number in 7 months now, Prime Minister Boris Johnson announced that 5 million people have had a dose of the vaccine, the first was inoculated to 36 million people over 56% of Britons.
And soon a mass testing campaign could start to monitor the progress of the epidemic.
And this is precisely the news headlining this morning in the British newspapers
The times
Let's start with the Times which headlines: The Prime Minister trusts in mass tests.
With a test performed twice a week for free to every adult citizen, the Times continues, the government hopes it will be possible to return to a "more normal" life.
Boris Johnson hopes that the widespread tests will stop the spread of the virus variants.
We talk about rapid tests that can produce results within 30 minutes.
Premier Boris Johnson will announce it today.
The British will be able to order the tests and have them sent home, or collect them from pharmacies or collection centers.
DAILY TELEGRAPH
Let's move on to the Daily Telegraph, let's also see the photo of the exultation of the Cambridge rowing team that won the annual Boat Race yesterday, but also here are the tests in the foreground.
"Get tested twice a week to loosen the lockdown rules."
The announcement confirms that the Daily Telegraph is expected today, in the same press conference Johnson will also announce what the rules will be to allow UK citizens to go on holiday abroad starting from 17 May.
The free biweekly tests, the Daily Telgrgraph again writes, pave the way for companies to require staff or customers to demonstrate a negative result.
DAILY EXPRESS
Quick tests twice a week to free us, the title chosen by the Daily express for the first page.
The guardian
"Test twice a week, so the prime minister faces resistance to the covid passport".
The proposal writes the Guardian was born in the government to counter growing opposition to the idea of a Covid passport on apps to allow people to enter crowded places or attend events, however, some scientists have expressed skepticism about this plan. - raising concerns about the possibility that rapid swabs may produce false negatives.
Daily mirror
The daily mirror is also the first to choose the news of the tests, but it also proposes the appeal of small businesses: Use us or Loose us.
Use us or you will lose us.
SUN
The graphic chosen by Sun for its first page is eloquent.
An airplane-shaped vaccine syringe.
With Johnson and Johnson's single-dose vaccine, a single injection will be enough to get back on a plane and leave for holidays outside the UK.
And this is a sign of hope for tour operators.
Let's move to France where we remember that the whole country is in lockdown, schools will be closed for at least three weeks.
In France the epidemic runs like in no other European state, the total number of infections has exceeded that of the United Kingdom and is approaching 5 million.
hospitals are suffering, the new positives yesterday were 60,000.
Le monde
Le monde on its front page this morning wonders if the new calendar will be able to be maintained.
As France enters a new phase of lockdown restrictions, Le monde writes, the commitments made by French President Macron continue to fuel the debate.
He wanted to give new perspectives to the French but risks being contradicted by the facts.
Macron is gripped by his own agenda, the vaccination campaign proceeds in fits and starts.
The president last week announced that from mid-May he would be able to reopen the country, that some places of culture will be able to host the public with strict rules to see people at the restaurant again for the beginning of summer.
But Le monde seems to be very skeptical about the timing of this roadmap.
Meanwhile, on the first page, the news of the air transfers of Covid patients from one region to another of the country where the Covid wards are less suffering.
The photograph chosen for the first page is dedicated to Biden's Miami in the United States where he writes Le monde we are already witnessing a restart thanks to Biden's mass vaccinations.
LE FIGARO
On Le figaro we find the drama of Burma that the French newspaper writes is on the brink of civil war.
Also yesterday Burmese security forces opened fire on a group of demonstrators.
The victims are over 550. In the photograph there is the appeal of Pope Francis on vaccines during the Easter mass.
The title: the pope launches an appeal to share vaccines with the poorest countries on earth.
Let's go to spain
EL PAIS
Also on the first page of the Pais we find an image of Bergoglio in the Easter mass, and the newspaper underlines the words pronounced by the pontiff who in the urbi et orbi blessing said: in the spirit of an internationalism of vaccines, I urge the entire community international commitment to a shared commitment to overcome the delays in their distribution and facilitate their sharing, especially with the poorest countries.
And also in Spain the debate is focused on the delay in vaccines: the delay of vaccines animates the debate on patents.
Several associations an intervention that could favor mass production while the European Union is considering a temporary liberalization of patents.
El mundo
El mundo focuses on what it calls doubts about the end of the pandemic.
63.5% of Spaniards believe that summer will be lost due to the slowness of the vaccination campaign.
Pessimism prevails.
The majority believe that it will not be possible to return to normal on the dates mentioned by the government.
Controversy over the decision of the mayor of Madrid to keep the restaurants open, we remind you that in the Spanish capital there will be a vote on May 4 for the renewal of the municipal administration.
Criticism of the government's decision to allow tourists to move freely within the national territory, which is forbidden to resident citizens who cannot - as happens here - move between regions.
Abc
Abc dedicates its cover to the Russian Sputnik vaccine and writes that Russia is accelerating production to launch its serum in the European Union.
Europe probes the possibility of giving the green light to the drug but still has not even a request for approval.
The vanguard
Meanwhile, the Catalan newspaper La Vanguardia announces that in Catalonia the threshold of 2 million citizens vaccinated with the first dose has been reached.
Of these, 64% are over 80 years old while 28% are between 60 and 65 years old.
Let's go to the United States
New York Times
Let's start with the New Yorl Times which on its home page talks about the Biden administration's effort to combat poverty, the newspaper writes: the signs of hunger.
"A profound change," the New York Times continues, as millions of Americans do not have enough to eat, the administration is rapidly ramping up aid, with an eye towards permanent expansion of the safety net.
And then the tragedy of migrants on the border with Mexico.
In March In the California desert there was a terrible car accident, on board an SUV there were 25 people crammed one on top of the other.
13 people died along one of the many dirt roads, one of those illegal routes that lead to the United States.
This incident, however, highlights a new dynamic that is taking place: arrests of migrants by authorities along the southwestern border in March reached 170,000, the highest point in 15 years, an increase of almost 70%. since February.
The amount that migrants give to smugglers varies between 5 and 10 thousand dollars.
A major factor in the surge has been a marked increase in the number of single adults from Mexico, as the pandemic has stalled the country's economy and left millions without a livelihood.
Wall street journal
The economic crisis that followed the pandemic also featured in the Wall street journal, focusing its attention on small and medium-sized enterprises.
small entrepreneurs first writes suffer the weight of the guarantees on the personal debts they have contracted.
They assure that they will pay out of their own pockets if companies are unable to honor the debt, but the cost of this guarantee has risen during the pandemic.
"It's like trying to stay in quicksand."