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US coronavirus cases, deaths, and hospitalizations set new records almost daily. According to Business Insider experts are nervously eyeing Americans' behavior during Thanksgiving. Public health experts have urged people not to travel this year. The CDC recommends not mixing households at Thanksgiving gatherings. A record number of travelers have flown across the country ahead of the holiday. One in three people surveyed by Insider said they're not giving up their traditional dinner plans. An expert told ABC News that without proper precautions, however, the US could be hit with a double surge and a "humanitarian crisis."
Joseph LaVorgna is the chief economist at the National Economic Council, and is an economic adviser to the Trump administration. And according to Business Insider, LaVorgna on Friday said he felt there was no rush to release a second coronavirus stimulus package. LaVorgna said that despite a disappointing Friday jobs report, he doesn't 'believe the recovery at the moment is in jeopardy.' On Friday, the jobs report that said 10.7 million Americans were unemployed in November. Congress is considering a $908 billion stimulus proposal after months of negotiations. It does not include a $1,200 direct payment.
Coronavirus and the subsequent lockdowns have hit Venice hard: its 150 canals, so admired by tourists, are empty.
Industry analysts say only about a third of the usual number of tourists will visit Portugal's Algarve region this summer.
The unemployment rate in the United States rose to record-breaking 14.7%, the highest figure since 1929’s Great Depression, as 20.5 million jobs vanished during the only month of April. It comes as the coronavirus pandemic has resulted in the collapse of the American economy in breakneck speed. In February, the same unemployment rate was at a 5-decade low, as FRANCE 24’s business editor Bryan Quinn explains this “devastating number”.
Quatre patients atteints du Covid-19, hospitalisés en réanimation sur l'île de la Réunion, sont évacués vers un aéroport de la région parisienne par vol sanitaire. Une opération sans précédent par la durée du vol, 11 heures, et le nombre de malades transportés.
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