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Italy will start progressively, but with homogeneous measures throughout the national territory. Social distancing, with the use of masks, will remain in effect until a vaccine is available. This was announced by Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte in the report to the Chamber of Deputies and Senate on the health emergency (Republic). The task force of experts led by Vittorio Colao delivered the document with the guidelines for “phase 2” to the premier yesterday evening, writes Corriere. Conte explained that the latter will leave on May 4 and the details “will be communicated by the end of the week”. There will be at least 50 billion euros in the next emergency decree, he added (Sky TG24).

Among the benches The ordinance for school leaving is prepared at Miur: the goal is to take the only oral test live. The interview could be worth 60 points and 40 the school path (Republic). Meanwhile, the MIUR has activated a committee of 18 experts for the restart of the school (Handle)

immune The Prime Minister also clarified that the app of contact tracing Immune will not be mandatory. And there will be no limitations in the movements or other prejudices towards those who do not want to download it. The ministry of the interior is asked to ensure data security, while the ministry of innovation announces that the app will be open source. Meanwhile, 300 scientists sign a letter to warn about the risks of similar apps with a centralized data collection (Republic).

The secret plan The director general of the ministry of health, Andrea Urbani, explained that “as of January 20, a secret plan against the epidemic was ready and that plan was followed. The line has been not to frighten the population and to work to contain the infection “(Courier service).

Bulletin 107,709 people are currently positive for coronavirus in Italy, 528 fewer than on Monday. The victims who contracted the coronavirus rose to 24,648, with an increase of 534. 2,723 more healed, a record ever: in total, since the beginning of the emergency, there are 51,600 (Rai News).

Agenda The European Council that will take place on April 23 by videoconference could give the go ahead to the proposal on the Recovery fund, which however will have to review by the Commission and the Eurogroup (Republic). Second Handle the summit will serve to support the 540 billion euro plan of the European Group to help the economy experienced by the economic effects of the covid-19.

The proposal Conte explained that the “Italian proposal provides for a fund managed by the Commission, with the guarantees of the European budget and of all member countries”. There is caution, however, on the Mes: the last word will be up to the parliament and the implementing regulations will be assessed first to verify whether they will really be without conditionality (Courier service).

Here London After the decline of the past two days in the United Kingdom in the last 24 hours, another 823 deaths have been recorded, almost double on April 20. The data of the ministry of health bring the total census of deaths to 17,337, while the diagnosed infections almost reach 130 thousand (Sky News). The British National Institute of Statistics, meanwhile, has revealed that the data on covid-19 positive victims would be much higher than the official ones (CNN). The first experimental human tests for the UK government-supported anticoronavirus vaccine and currently being studied by the team of researchers at the University of Oxford will start on April 23 (BBC).

Here Sweden According to the Swedish Ministry of Health, about a third of the million inhabitants of Stockholm may have contracted coronavirus by May (Reuters).

American smes The Senate has approved a $ 500 billion coronavirus bill, the chamber is expected to go ahead with the plan later this week. The plan includes 380 billion for small businesses, 75 billion for hospitals and 25 billion for tests (Politic).

Borders closed United States President Donald Trump wants to introduce a 60-day immigration ban in the United States that will apply to those who apply for the “green card” for permanent residence. Trump would like to establish the ban through an executive order, which he will likely sign today (Reuters).

Election campaign? Politicians and individual Republicans affiliated to President Donald Trump’s re-election campaign would organize or promote anti-lockdown protests in all US states that are most significant for elections. Reuters.

Global emergency The deaths in the world are 170,418, while the people infected have exceeded 2.5 million. In the United States coronavirus deaths exceeded 43 thousand, while the positive cases are over 800 thousand (Guardian).