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Real estate owners don’t want a fixed lease
According to an estimate by Wüest’s partners, 1 billion Swiss francs are generated per month in Switzerland through commercial rentals. The consulting firm does the math: If all companies directly affected by the coronavirus crisis were no longer able to pay their rent, there would be rent losses of around CHF 440 million per month.
A flat-rate rent exemption is out of the question for the Swiss Real Estate Association (VIS), which represents major property rental companies. But its members had been asked to find mutually portable solutions. Many large landlords would have granted rent deferrals quickly and in part on their own.
More than 1.5 million coronavirus infections worldwide.
According to Johns Hopkins University, the number of infections detected worldwide now exceeds 1.5 million. Almost 95,000 people have succumbed to Covid-10 lung disease. With more than 450,000 infections, the United States is by far the country most affected by the coronavirus worldwide.
The pandemic in Switzerland seems to have reached its peak
Epidemiologist Christian Althaus has published a study from the University of Bern on Twitter. The measures in Switzerland are effective, writes Althaus. The number of reproductions has been reduced to 0.59, making an infected person infect less than one person. In mid-March, the value was still 2.79.
Even if the peak is exceeded, the death toll is likely to increase by the model, probably until around the year 2000. Right now, almost 1,000 people have died of Covid-19 lung disease in Switzerland.
“I think the collaboration is very good”
EU Ambassador to Switzerland Michael Matthiessen spoke in an SRF interview about the relationship between Switzerland and the EU in the crown crisis. It’s about saving lives first and then jobs.
Federal advisers are currently being seen in videoconferences with the 27 EU ministers, something like this has never been seen before. But Matthiessen also says that bilateral relations with Switzerland are not a high priority at the moment. “We will see when we get back to the subject,” Matthiessen said when asked about the framework agreement.
The United States Federal Reserve is touching the big ladle
The Fed plans to inject $ 2.3 trillion, or $ 2.3 billion, into the US economy, which has been affected by the coronavirus. That’s three times the defense budget of the United States. “This has never been done this way before, by any central bank in the world. These are huge sums, “says exchange correspondent Jens Korte.
According to Korte, however, the financial injection shows how dramatically the Fed is evaluating the situation in the short term. “First, it made funds available to banks to avoid a financial crisis. Later, the credit markets were flooded to guarantee liquidity. And now the complete stop must be avoided ».
The finance ministers of the euro countries have agreed on the aid package
According to French Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire, euro finance ministers have agreed to European aid in the coronavirus pandemic. Europe has shown that it can meet the challenge of the crisis, Le Maire said Thursday night.
The rescue package has an immediate volume of 500 billion euros. A reconstruction fund for the economy will follow later.
Germany’s Finance Minister Olaf Scholz said the bailout package comprises three points: loans from the EIB development bank, a European short-term job allocation and preventive credit lines from the bailout fund ESM. It was important that Europe provide a common response to the coronavirus crisis. Long discussions were necessary, but now there is a consensus.
There are also incorrigible Ticino drivers
Road traffic to the south has continued to decrease in Gothard today. Only about ten percent of the amount of traffic that is common at the moment is heading south.
The images of the otherwise completely congested highway before Easter seem almost surreal these days. Still, there is. Those German-Swiss who do not let the Uri canton police prevent them from traveling to Ticino.
The return flight from the Canary Islands has landed
The end of the largest return campaign in Swiss history is near. Currently there are still five flights pending to bring stranded Swiss citizens back home. On Thursday, a plane brought the blocked travelers back to Switzerland from the Canary Islands, more precisely from Tenerife and Lanzarote.
Additional flights are planned from Mumbai / Delhi (India), from Guatemala City (Guatemala) / San José (Costa Rica) and from Cape Town (South Africa) for this week. There will be return flights from Lima (Peru) and Kinshasa (Congo) next week.
On Tuesday Hans-Peter Lenz, head of the crisis management center (KMZ), which coordinates return flights in the EDA department, announced the end of the return campaign soon. He urged blocked travelers to really take advantage of the remaining federally organized flights.
Pope is almost alone at Easter celebrations
Pope Francis celebrated a solemn sacramental mass to start Easter ceremonies restricted by the crown pandemic. On Holy Thursday, the Catholic head of the church was almost alone in St. Peter’s Basilica.
Only a few church dignitaries celebrated Mass with him. The 83-year-old pope remembered priests, doctors, and nurses who would do great things in the Corona crisis and many of whom died from Covid’s disease. 19
Traditional foot washing had been canceled due to health risks. Other parts of the celebration were also omitted. On Holy Thursday, Christians around the world begin to remember the suffering, death, and resurrection of Jesus.
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Over 400 Coronavirus Cases on US Aircraft Carriers
Among the crew members of the US aircraft carrier “USS Theodore Roosevelt”, the number of confirmed infections with the new corona virus has increased significantly. There are now 416 cases, a Defense Ministry spokeswoman said Thursday. Almost all of the more than 4,000 crew members have already been tested, the spokeswoman said.
Due to the spread of the corona virus, the armored and nuclear powered aircraft carrier is located off the Pacific island of Guam and has been largely evacuated in the meantime. The Coronavirus outbreak on the ship has rocked the US Navy. USA For almost two weeks.
Captain Brett Corzier had been made public in a dramatic letter. Crozier was released. On Tuesday, the current head of the US Navy Secretariat. The USA, Thomas Modly, resigned after being criticized for disparaging comments about Crozier.
The American aircraft carrier “USS Theodore Roosevelt”
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Education chief expects schools to close longer
Swiss schools are more likely to remain closed even after spring break. The chair of the cantonal education directors, Silvia Steiner (CVP), in her role as a member of the Zurich government, sent a letter to all her teachers and schools, announcing that distance education would likely continue.
“The Federal Council has extended the restrictions and I suppose the first announced easing will not affect schools,” Steiner told SRF Radio Zurich regional newspaper Schaffhausen. After three weeks with schools closed, Steiner also draws a solid balance.
Boris Johnson is no longer in intensive care
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has been released from the intensive care unit and transferred to a normal ward. The prime minister is very good, he says in a statement. Johnson is now in the early stages of his recovery and will continue to be closely monitored.
The 55-year-old prime minister was rushed to St. Thomas Hospital on Sunday after symptoms of his Covid 19 disease had not subsided after a week and a half. On Monday, his condition deteriorated so much that he had to be transferred to the intensive care unit.
It was initially unclear when Johnson could take over government affairs again. British media anticipated that it could take weeks. For so long, Secretary of State Dominic Raab will represent Johnson.
Valais is penalizing hundreds of young people.
The Valais judiciary has already distributed more than 1,000 buses for violating crown regulations. She writes this in a message. Young people between 15 and 25 years of age who had not complied with the ban on meetings of more than five people or the minimum distance of two meters were especially punished. The fine for violating the regulations is CHF 100.
Young people have a habit of being in groups at train stations or in public places at almost any time of day or night.
The Federal Councilors’ Easter Holiday
“This Easter is different: stay home,” the Federal Council tells its fellow citizens in a video message. It will also be a quiet Easter this year for members of the state government itself. Justice Minister Karin Keller-Sutter announced that she would cook, bake and read at home. At most there is a walk around the neighborhood. Interior Minister Alain Berset also intends to take time out for a book, as he says in the video. But, of course, he stays at home, as announced also by the finance minister, Ueli Maurer, and the foreign minister, Ignazio Cassis. Defense Minister Viola Amherd does not want to miss a bike ride. Federal President Simonetta Sommaruga intends to make some music: The trained pianist wants to give her mother a piano concert over the phone.
New point of contact for ideas and concerns.
The Federal Council and administration receive more mail from the population than ever during the crown crisis. The federal government is now establishing an official channel to make better use of its commitment to address the crown crisis.
The «Covid-19 Civil Society Liaison Office», The link opens in a new window It should examine and focus the concerns of the population more systematically than today, as it says in a communication from the Department of the Interior (EDI). The new platform between the federal government and the population is being created with the State Labor Organization.
The air is cleaner after closing.
You can smell it, but according to Empa you can also try it: the reduced traffic since the closure in mid-March has reduced the concentration of nitrogen dioxide in the air.
Due to the favorable weather conditions in the first three months with mild temperatures and thanks to the biseda in the second half of March, the contamination was lower than in the previous year anyway. To demonstrate the impact of the blockade on air quality, Empa experts compared the measured data with what would have been expected without the federal government’s measures against Covid-19.
The result: In places near the road, emissions of nitrogen dioxide and nitrogen oxide fell by 46 to 57 percent. The best values were measured in Lugano-Università and in the bastion of Bern. The Beromünster measurement station recorded a major exception, where the contaminants even increased after the blockade. But Payerne also showed low values. According to Empa, this is due to the fact that nitrogen oxide concentrations in rural areas are almost exclusively due to weather conditions.
Maundy Thursday without Easter jam – 300 vehicles stopped
At the beginning of Easter, traffic on the A2 southbound generally stops for several kilometers. Not this year There is a huge void in front of the Saint Gotthard tunnel. The authorities’ request to refrain from traveling to Ticino had already led to significantly less traffic in recent days.
Traffic volume is now 10 percent, Thorsten Imhof, head of Uri’s traffic police, told the Keystone-SDA news agency on Thursday. Around 1,800 vehicles travel south every day. At peak times, there were 17,000 in other years.
The police have established a checkpoint in Wassen, where they inform travelers about the crown situation in the southern canton and want to discourage them from continuing their journey; the latter, however, so far without success. 300 vehicles have been stopped, unfortunately it has not yet been possible to turn someone around, Imhof said.
More 19 Covid deaths in Italy
In Italy, the number of infected and dead people increases again. The civil protection agency announces 610 deaths, after 542 the day before. 4204 new cases of infection were also recorded, after 3836 on Wednesday.
In total, 143,626 victims and 18,279 deaths have been reported in Italy.
France increases emergency plan to 100 billion euros
In the fight against the economic consequences of the Corona crisis, France is increasing its package of measures to around 100 billion euros. So far, € 45 billion has been planned, among other things to finance short-term work, as budget minister Gérald Darmanin announced on Thursday.
Darmanin and Economy and Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire told the business newspaper “Les Echos” that they are anticipating a severe recession. The ministers adopted the National Bank’s previous estimate that the country’s highly indebted country’s economic output should shrink by around six percent this year due to the Covid 19 pandemic.
Euro help: “We are very close to an agreement”
Euro group leader Mario Centeno has called on EU finance ministers to commit to the billions in aid to states, businesses and workers in the Corona crisis. “We are very close to an agreement,” Centeno said Thursday night, shortly before a new round of negotiations by the ministers. “I trust it, I still trust that this time everyone will do the job.”
The will to compromise on which the European Union is based is required, Centeno said in a video posted on Twitter. In the pandemic, all states are in the same situation. “There are no first class passengers, we swim or sink together.”
In the evening, the finance ministers of the 19 euro states and the other EU finance ministers wanted to discuss the rescue package, which has a volume of around 500 billion euros. The ministers had already negotiated 16 hours Tuesday night to Wednesday without finding a solution.
