10.00 am – Companies, Bankitalia: if the crisis continues, defer tax payments
The suspensions for the months of April and May of VAT payments, withholding tax and social security contributions are useful to allow companies to face the difficulties of an emergency phase. If the crisis continues, it may be necessary to distribute the recovery of the unpaid sums over a wider period. So the Head of the Economic Structure Service of the Bank of Italy Fabrizio Balassone in a testimony delivered to the Finance and Productive Activities committees of the Chamber.
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9.42 am – Positives among the migrants of the Cas, protest in the Turin area
Protest at Cas di Alpignano: about thirty migrants are in the courtyard and prevent operators from entering inside the structure. The reason for the protest seems to be connected to the request to remove and isolate the people tested positive for Coronavirus inside the reception center, which are 16. Police and carabinieri are on the spot. Around 250 people were welcomed in the center at the Parlap hotel and in recent days it had been difficult to find separate accommodation for those who had contracted the virus.
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9.15 am – Rezza (Iss), Enemy not containment measures, the virus
If there hadn’t been the lockdown it would have been a disaster. When someone thinks the enemy is containment measures, not so. The enemy is the virus. If we gave up containment measures entirely, the Italian economy and society would still be seriously affected because we would have a virus that runs around Italy. We have an ongoing pandemic. Gianni Rezza, director of the Department of Infectious Diseases of the Istituto Superiore di Sanit, guest of 24 Mattino on Radio 24 said so. As for the massesRezza explains that one must be patient: they are always painful decisions and that they are never taken lightly – he underlines -. The problem that at this stage we must rely on a precautionary principle and try to avoid gatherings of people, although the CEI has produced a responsible document. The problem that when you “relax” a little, you start to think that social distancing is also no longer important. However, even this partial measure has deadlines, in 2-3 weeks we see what happens and after maybe it opens, a timed measure.
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9.13 am – Palermo, a positive 5 month old baby
A five-month-old girl tested positive for coronavirus. admitted to the Di Cristina children’s hospital in Palermo and her condition is considered good. The small test was positive only after the third swab (the first two swabs had given negative). The management, after learning about the positive buffer, has started sanitizing the wards where the child was.
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9.07 am – Borsa, Milan opens up sharply + 2.7%
Piazza Affari opens the week in sharp rise. The Ftse Mib marks + 2.7% at the start at an altitude of 17,313 points. On Friday evening S&P confirmed Italy’s rating.
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8.41 am – China, only three new cases and the first schools open
The new cases have dropped to three in the last 24 hours in China, two of which are arriving from abroad. The country is increasingly loosening its lockdown measures and the students from Beijing and Shanghai have returned to school. In Shanghai, students from the last year of middle and high school returned to class, while in Beijing only high school students, those who must study for the university entrance exam. Students – said the government – must check the temperature at the school door and show the green code on the app that calculates a person’s risk of contagion.
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8.02 am – Tunisia: 949 cases, healings increase
Tunisia has registered another 10 new infections in the last 24 hours, bringing the total number of confirmed cases in the country to 949. The Ministry of Health of Tunis announced in a statement specifying that the official deaths remain 38, while the recovered are increasing, 216. The patients in resuscitation are 20.
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7.59 hours – Germany, over a thousand new positives and 110 victims in 24 hours
The Robert Koch Institute, the German government agency that monitors the trend of coronavirus in Germany, has confirmed more than a thousand new ones infected in the last 24 hours, thus bringing the number of cases to 155,193 in the country. Instead, 110 deaths in a day, for a total of 5,750 confirmed by the German authorities. By contrast, the number of people healed by Covid-19 in Germany has exceeded 114 thousand.
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7.55 am – USA, White House: unemployment will rise to 16%
The lockdown in the US represents a shock to the economy, which is likely to push unemployment down to 16% in April. This was revealed by the White House economic adviser, Kevin Hassett on ABC television, claiming that more stimulus will be needed to ensure recovery. a really serious situation – Hassett said -. We will see the unemployment rate approaching what we saw during the Great Depression of the 1930s. The employment report will be released on April 8 on April data.
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7.55 am – Over 2.9 million cases worldwide more than 206 thousand deaths
More than 2.9 million people are infected worldwide and over 206 thousand dead. This was announced by Johns Hopkins University, updating the balance of cases at 2,971,639 globally and that of the victims at 206,542. instead of 5,441,079 the number of people considered cured of the infection.
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7.38 am – New Zealand, the premier announces: contagion stopped
New Zealand announces that it has stopped coronavirus infection. After recording fewer than 10 cases a day, one yesterday, Premier Jacinta Arden said the country has won the battle for the time being. But we must remain vigilant if we want it to continue to be this way, he added. From tomorrow some non-essential economic activities, health and school services will resume. But citizens are still recommended to stay home. We reopen the economy but not people’s social life, Arden said yet. New Zealand reported less than 1,500 cases and 19 deaths.
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7.23 am – Japan extends the entry ban to 14 countries
The Tokyo government extends the list of nations whose citizens will not be able to enter Japan. According to the latest provision, there are 14 new countries, including Russia, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates and Ukraine. At the same time, the government authorities raised the alert level for their compatriots who would like to travel to these countries, inviting them to use all caution. The total number of countries to which the entry ban has been imposed stands at 87: in addition to Italy, starting on March 26, Japan does not welcome travelers from the United States, China, South Korea and Australia.
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7.04 – FT, the deaths from the pandemic could be 60% more
The number of coronavirus deaths in the world could be 60% higher than what has been ascertained so far: what emerges from an analysis of Financial Times, in 14 countries, out of all deaths during the pandemic. Analysis of the data shows that there were 122,000 more deaths in these countries than in previous years, therefore significantly more than the 77,000 Covid-19 deaths reported in these countries during the pandemic. And if this same level of under-representation were projected on the whole world, the deaths due to the virus would go from the current figure of 201 thousand to 318 thousand.
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4.21 am – Oil: Wti collapses on storage concerns, at -9.3%
US oil prices mark a new thump in morning trading on Asian markets, discounting renewed fears about storage capacity amid the collapse of demand with the pandemic and despite the production cut started by the main players: the American benchmark West Texas Intermediate (Wti) sells 9.3%, at $ 15.36 per barrel, while Brent, the international benchmark, has a 3.2% filing, at $ 20.75 per barrel.
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2.46 hours – USA, the victims drop: 1,330 in 24 hours
The number of coronavirus victims returns to the United States: 1,330 in the last 24 hours compared to 2,494 on the previous day. In total, deaths, according to Johns Hopkins University, are close to 55,000 and cases of infection are 965,000.
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