LIVE – Coronavirus – 517 deaths in 24 hours in Spain, a total of 17,489 deaths at this stage

11:39 am: Spain announces 517 deaths in 24 hours, a total of 17,489 deaths at this stage, as well as 3,477 new cases of virus, bringing the total to 169,496.

11:09 a.m .: China announces that 108 new cases of coronavirus have been identified, the highest level in a month, reports CNN. A figure made up of the 97 imported cases announced on Sunday, which raises fears of a second wave in the birthplace of Covid-19.

10.31 a.m .: The city of Moscow launched on Monday an electronic pass system tightening the control of containment in the Russian capital, epicenter of the epidemic of coronavirus in the country with overloaded health services. This pass, which can be obtained via an online request on the town hall website, concerns travel by car or public transport to go, for example, to work, to the doctor or to his country house.

Muscovites can still move freely on foot to go to the supermarket or walk their dog. But the town hall warned that if necessary it would extend the system also to these pedestrian trips in its neighborhood.

Municipal employees, soldiers, judges, lawyers, notaries and journalists are exempt from this system for their business trips. Their delivery began on Monday for full service on Wednesday. The move was announced Friday in a TV address by Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin, as was the layoff of virtually all non-critical companies. Mr. Sobianine reported a situation that “worsened” last week despite the measures of prior confinement which, according to him, forced 75% of the population to stay at home. He said he expected “difficult” weeks to come.

His assistant Anastasia Rakova had meanwhile announced the Moscow medical services were on the verge of rupture in this city of 12 million inhabitants, where the ordered confinement is not always strictly respected.

President Vladimir Putin has decreed for the whole of Russia a full month of paid vacation in April for employees who can no longer exercise their professional activity due to confinement.

Russia has 15,770 officially registered coronavirus patients and 130 dead.

9:57 a.m .: The Socialist Party calls on the executive on Monday to take into account the social emergency created by the Covid-19 epidemic, stressing that French people are no longer eating their fill and calling for the establishment of direct aid to poorest households.

“Every day that passes, the health crisis and confinement increase inequalities and social fractures in our country,” wrote PS boss Olivier Faure in a letter to Emmanuel Macron, made public a few hours before the address by the head of state Monday evening.

“A part of the population no longer feeds its fill. Students who benefited from meals at the Crous can no longer go there; many children, for whom the only real daily meal was that of the canteen, there have more access. Delivery drivers paid on the run see their income collapse and deprive themselves of eating “, enumerates the deputy of Seine-et-Marne, before calling on the president:” Next to the state of emergency health, you must impose a state of social emergency. “

The boss of the PS considers in particular essential to “set up an exceptional aid of 300 euros per household, and an increase of 100 euros per child, for all households benefiting from social minima, housing aid and back-to-school allowance school”.

Olivier Faure also recommends the opening of unemployment insurance rights “from two months of affiliation” and the abolition of the unemployment insurance reform.

The unemployment benefit reform, the second part of the overall unemployment insurance reform, was postponed by decree to September 1. The government currently excludes repealing the reform as a whole.

Mr. Faure also calls Emmanuel Macron not to give Monday evening “no signal of relaxation” in the fight against the health crisis of the coronavirus, while giving “a plausible horizon to the French” for the stage which will follow the confinement.

7:02 a.m .: United States records 1,514 new deaths from coronavirus in 24 hours on Sunday evening, down for the second consecutive day, according to a daily count from Johns Hopkins University. This American medical university, whose balance sheets refer, had identified 1,920 new deaths Saturday and 2,108 Friday. The United States is the country most affected by Covid-19 with more than 22,000 deaths and at least 555,000 confirmed cases. The situation is particularly serious in New York State, epicenter of the disease with more than 9,000 deaths, including nearly 7,000 in New York City alone.

06:46: The coronavirus pandemic continues its sinister progression, even if the containment measures seem to begin to bear fruit in certain countries, in Europe and in the United States, where the rate of daily deaths slows down. Covid-19 disease has already killed more than 112,500 people worldwide since its onset in December in China, a figure that has doubled in just over a week. The United States remains the most bereaved country with at least 22,020 deaths for more than 555,000 confirmed cases. With a total of 75,011 dead (909,673 cases), Europe remains the continent hardest hit by the pandemic. Elsewhere, the situation is appalling in several countries, notably in Ecuador where hospitals and funeral homes are completely overwhelmed.

In Guayaquil, the Ecuadorian economic capital, a special team of police and military has been created to collect corpses which cannot be removed and which sometimes remain abandoned in the streets. This team has already recovered more than 700 bodies from homes across the city.

“The medical experts unfortunately estimate (…) that the deaths due to Covid will reach in the next months between 2,500 and 3,500 only in the province of Guayas”, that of Guayaquil, declared Jorge Wated, who directs the unit. But the daily death toll has been showing signs of falling for several days in some of the most affected countries, Italy, France and the United States. Italy announced its least deadly day on Sunday in more than three weeks, with 431 dead in 24 hours (nearly 20,000 dead in total).

Since March 19, the daily figure has systematically exceeded 500 dead. France also notes “a very slight drop” in the number of intensive care patients for the fourth consecutive day, as well as the number of deaths in one day in the hospital (310 dead compared to 345 the day before) for a total of 14,393 deaths.

6:01 a.m.he President Emmanuel Macron, who is to address the French this evening, nevertheless plans to extend the confinement at least until 10 May. The pandemic also seems to be approaching its peak in the United States where 1,514 new deaths were recorded in 24 hours, a figure in decline for the second consecutive day.

5:28 am: White House chief expert Anthony Fauci estimated that the US economy could gradually restart in May. While the main indicators of the spread “are not only stabilizing but starting to go down”, he said his “cautious optimism”. The governor of New York State, epicenter of the disease with more than 9,000 deaths, however, tempered: “We do not see a significant drop, it is just a stabilization,” said Andrew Cuomo. In Spain, the third most bereaved country in the world (16,972 dead), the daily balance sheet however rebounded after three consecutive days of decline. Despite everything, a number of Spaniards resume work on Monday: non-essential businesses reopen after two weeks of economic “hibernation”. Faced with the fear of a rebound in contagions, the Spanish government announced that it would distribute 10 million masks to people forced to take public transport to return to work.

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