( Reuters) – The U.S. economy likely shed jobs in March, suddenly ending a historical 113 straight months of work growth as strict measures to manage the coronavirus shuttered organisations and factories, confirming a recession is underway.
FILE PICTURE: Medical personnel, wearing protective fits and face masks, work at the extensive care unit for coronavirus disease (COVID-19) patients at Ambroise Pare center in Neuilly-sur-Seine near Paris, as the spread of the coronavirus illness continues in France, April 1,2020 REUTERS/Benoit Tessier
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DEATHS, INFECTIONS
At least 1 million case were reported on Thursday, with infections in the United States amounting to 240,000, accounting for 24%of cases around the world and 40%of the 74,300 cases reported in the past day, according to a Reuters tally.
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EUROPE
The coronavirus death count in France surged to almost 5,400 individuals on Thursday after the health ministry started including assisted living home fatalities in its information.
The death toll in Italy has actually climbed up by 760 to 13,915, as the head of the European Commission apologised to the nation for an absence of solidarity from Europe in tackling its coronavirus crisis.
Britain’s health minister assured a tenfold boost in the number of everyday tests, as a poll stated more than a half of Britons think the government was too sluggish to buy a lockdown.
A minimum of 570 individuals have died in assisted living home in France’s eastern region, recommending the national death toll might be far greater than thought.
Switzerland’s federal government said it was still far prematurely to unwind measures.
Spain’s death toll went beyond 10,000 after a record 950 people died over night, but health officials kept in mind a slowdown in proportional everyday boosts in infections and deaths.
Portugal extended its state of emergency by another 15 days.
Greece has quarantined a migrant camp after 20 asylum hunters checked favorable, its first such facility hit given that the outbreak.
President Vladimir Putin prolonged till April 30 a paid non-working duration across Russia, which has actually reported 3,548 cases and 30 deaths.
AMERICAS
U.S.