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Rassegna Stampa Estera RASSEGNA STAMPA ESTERA 08 aprile 2020 INDICE PMI 07/04/2020 Wall Street Journal 5 Airbnb Raises Funds As Home-Sharing Business Stumbles 07/04/2020 Wall Street Journal 6 Loan to Luckin Chairman Could Cost Banks Millions 07/04/2020 Wall Street Journal 7 Two Providers Of Location Data Merge in Stock Deal 08/04/2020 Les Echos 8 Airbnb lève un milliard de dollars pour affronter le coronavirus 08/04/2020 Les Echos 9 Coorpacademy a formé 20.000 soignants en deux semaines 08/04/2020 Les Echos 10 240.000 Français répondent présent à l'appel des champs 08/04/2020 Les Echos 11 Mobiliser l'épargne nationale au chevet de nos entreprises 08/04/2020 Les Echos 12 Face au coronavirus, Nabla dévoile ses plans dans la santé 08/04/2020 Les Echos 13 Face au Covid-19, Nabla dévoile ses plans dans la santé STAMPA ESTERA 08/04/2020 The Guardian 16 100 days that changed the world 08/04/2020 Les Echos 21 L'autosuffisance alimentaire italienne sous tension 08/04/2020 Les Echos 22 Les pays de la zone euro face au casse-tête de la réponse au coronavirus 08/04/2020 Le Figaro 24 L'arsenal varié des États européens pour préserver l'emploi 08/04/2020 Le Figaro 26 Le plan de sauvetage européen sur la sellette 08/04/2020 Le Figaro 28 L'Italie dégaine un bazooka de 400 milliards d'euros 08/04/2020 Le Monde 29 La décrue commence à se dessiner dans les hôpitaux italiens PRIME PAGINE 08/04/2020 Les Echos 31 PRIMA PAGINA PMI 9 articoli 07/04/2020 Pag. 24 La proprietà intellettuale è riconducibile alla fonte specificata in testa pagina. Il ritaglio stampa da intendersi per uso privato PMI - Rassegna Stampa 08/04/2020 - 08/04/2020 5 07/04/2020 Pag. 25 La proprietà intellettuale è riconducibile alla fonte specificata in testa pagina. Il ritaglio stampa da intendersi per uso privato PMI - Rassegna Stampa 08/04/2020 - 08/04/2020 6 07/04/2020 Pag. 26 La proprietà intellettuale è riconducibile alla fonte specificata in testa pagina. Il ritaglio stampa da intendersi per uso privato PMI - Rassegna Stampa 08/04/2020 - 08/04/2020 7 08/04/2020 Pag. 15 La proprietà intellettuale è riconducibile alla fonte specificata in testa pagina. Il ritaglio stampa da intendersi per uso privato PMI - Rassegna Stampa 08/04/2020 - 08/04/2020 8 08/04/2020 Pag. 24 La proprietà intellettuale è riconducibile alla fonte specificata in testa pagina. Il ritaglio stampa da intendersi per uso privato PMI - Rassegna Stampa 08/04/2020 - 08/04/2020 9 08/04/2020 Pag. 16 La proprietà intellettuale è riconducibile alla fonte specificata in testa pagina. 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Il ritaglio stampa da intendersi per uso privato PMI - Rassegna Stampa 08/04/2020 - 08/04/2020 14 STAMPA ESTERA 7 articoli 08/04/2020 Pag. 1 La proprietà intellettuale è riconducibile alla fonte specificata in testa pagina. Il ritaglio stampa da intendersi per uso privato 100 days that changed the world How the coronavirus crisis unfolded Michael Safi Amman Lily Kuo Beijing Patrick Wintour 'I was at a hospital where I think there were a few coronavirus patients and I shook hands with everybody' Boris Johnson 3 March press conferenceOver the next three days, the Guardian will examine the origins of the deadly pandemic that has transformed our livesAturbulent decade had reached its final day. It was New Year's Eve 2019 and much of the world was preparing to celebrate. The obituaries of the 2010s had dwelt on eruptions and waves that would shape the era ahead: Brexit, the Syrian civil war, refugee crises, social media proliferation, and nationalism roaring back to life. They were written too soon.It was not until these last hours, before the toasts and countdowns had commenced that the decade's most consequential development of all broke the surface.At 1.38pm on 31 December, a Chinese government website announced the detection of a "pneumonia of unknown cause" in the area surrounding the South China seafood wholesale market in Wuhan, an industrial city of 11 million people.The outbreak was one of at least a dozen to be confirmed by the World Health Organization that December, including Ebola in west Africa, measles in the Pacific and dengue fever in Afghanistan. Outside China, its discovery was barely noticed.Over the next 100 days the virus would freeze international travel, extinguish economic activity and confine half of humanity to their homes, infecting more than a million people, including the British prime minister, the heir to the British throne, an Iranian vice- president, and the actor Idris Elba.By early April more than 75,000 would be dead. But all that was still unimaginable at the end of December, as fireworks exploded and people embraced at parties and in packed streets.Day one (Wednesday 1 January)The Wuhan seafood market is ordinarily bustling, but this morning police are weaving tape between its metal frames and hustling owners to shut their blue roller doors. Workers in hazmat suits carefully take samples from surfaces and place them in sealed plastic bags.Concerned messages are circulating on Chinese social media, fuelled by medical documents that have found their way online warning of patients presenting at Wuhan hospitals with ominous symptoms."Sars is basically certain, don't let the nurses go out," one message says. Another says: "Wash your hands. Masks. Gloves."Authorities in Taiwan are watching with alarm. The island is already implementing health precautions: arrivals on direct flights from Wuhan are being screened for flu-like symptoms on the tarmac in Taipei before they can disembark. Within two days, Singapore and Hong Kong will be monitoring arrivals from the city at their borders. In Wuhan, eight people accused of spreading "rumours" about the disease are summoned to the Public Security Bureau.Another who will be reprimanded is a Wuhan ophthalmologist, Li Wenliang, for showing a group of his medical school alumni an analysis of the virus that he believed to be Sars. Phrases such as "unknown Wuhan pneumonia" and "Wuhan seafood market" are already censored on YY, a popular livestreaming platform.Day nine (Thursday 9 January)The mystery disease is identified: Chinese scientists say the sick patients in Wuhan have contracted a previously undiscovered coronavirus.Two coronaviruses, Sars and Middle East respiratory syndrome (Mers), have already sparked pandemics this century. This new one is deadly too. Last night a 61-year-old man died in a Wuhan hospital, the first known victim.At this stage the official caseload is falling. Sequencing the virus has allowed doctors to strike off patients who were thought to be infected but who in fact only had STAMPA ESTERA - Rassegna Stampa 08/04/2020 - 08/04/2020 16 08/04/2020 Pag. 1 La proprietà intellettuale è riconducibile alla fonte specificata in testa pagina. Il ritaglio stampa da intendersi per uso privato ordinary pneumonia. No new coronavirus cases have been announced for four days.The identification of the new virus is overshadowed by speculation over a plane crash on the outskirts of Tehran the previous day. Iran is blaming a technical fault but photos and videos circulating online are raising suspicions that it was shot down.Later, a study will conclude that at this point the epidemic was doubling in size every week. Tomorrow, Li Wenliang, the ophthalmologist, will start to show symptoms.Day 13 (Monday 13 January)More than a week has passed since Wuhan health authorities last confirmed a case of the novel coronavirus.There has been nothing since the city began hosting an important annual meeting between state and provincial party officials.But the virus has slipped the net. Thailand reports its first case, a 61-year-old Wuhan resident whose high temperature was detected by a thermal surveillance scanner in Bangkok airport.A committee of infectious disease specialists that goes by the acronym Nervtag meets in London to discuss the virus, and deems that the risk to the UK is "very low, but warrants investigation and testing".The Chinese government says there is not yet clear evidence of human-to-human transmission, including any signs of medical professionals becoming sick. The official message is echoed by the World Health Organization, which issues a news release saying it is reassured of the quality of the Chinese government's response.Epidemiologists say the news is encouraging. "If there are no new cases in the next few days, the outbreak is over," Guan Yi, a professor of infectious diseases at the University of Hong Kong, tells the New York Times.Doctors in Wuhan are seeing a different picture. Studies will later show that for more than a fortnight hospitals in the city have been dealing with "an exponential increase" in cases with no link to the seafood market.Day 20 (Monday 20 January)Zhong Nanshan, a trusted respiratory expert and the public face of the Chinese government response, goes on state television with bad news: two new cases of the virus have surfaced in Guangdong province among patients with no direct contact with Wuhan.
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