Masks sold on the street in Brooklyn, New York, March 31, 2020. – Braulio Jatar / SOPA Images / Sipa
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The new coronavirus continued its cruel race Wednesday at an “almost exponential” speed, mowing lives around the world including that of a six-week-old baby in the United States, who has become one of the youngest of the 47,000 victims of the pandemic. More than 900,000 cases of Covid-19 have been recorded worldwide, including 210,000 in the United States, where the disease is progressing most rapidly. In the absence of sufficient screening capacity, these assessments are most likely far below reality. Despite containment measures which affect almost one inhabitant of the planet on two, the balance sheets are getting heavier: more than 13,000 dead in Italy, 9,000 in Spain, 4,500 in the United States, 4,000 in France …
The government has launched studies on the future deconfinement of French men and women. And this looks complex, according to Prime Minister Edouard Philippe, who was speaking in the face of a fact-finding mission to the National Assembly. The head of government hopes to be able to submit a draft strategy “in the coming days, weeks” while we are in the third week of containment to prevent the spread of the coronavirus.
The shoe brand André, more than a century old, is the first French company victim of the coronavirus: it was placed in receivership after having to close all its stores and lost nearly 4 million euros in fifteen days. Purchased eighteen months ago by the online sales site Spartoo, the brand, which generated in 2019 a turnover of 100 million euros but suffered 10 million losses, has some 600 employees including l job is now threatened. André filed for bankruptcy on March 23 and the placement decision in receivership was validated Tuesday by the Commercial Court of Grenoble, where the headquarters of Spartoo is located, said Wednesday the CEO of the group Boris Saragaglia.
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