🇫🇷PM Edouard Philippe speaking on ending home confinement starting May 11. Says France has never been on lockdown like this.

"We will have to live with the virus" until a vaccine, treatment. "We're far from having that famous herd immunity" The virus might disappear, or not. 🇫🇷PM Philippe: Our hospital system held up. There is a "serious risk" of a second wave that would lead to a second lockdown. So reopening will be progressive. And geographic since some areas of France (Île-de-France/Paris; Grand Est) have been hit harder than others. #COVID19

🇫🇷@EmmanuelMacron is addressing France for the 3rd time since the #COVID19 crisis began. France has been under home confinement since March 17.
—says he understands how hard this is, especially for old people
—says the state has come through, that hospitals are functioning 🇫🇷 Macron: "Were we prepared for this crisis? Not enough. But we have faced the challenge."
"Let's be honest, we lacked gowns, PPE, disinfectant gel, we weren't able to distribute enough masks."
"Like you, I've seen delays, weaknesses in our logistics"

Thread / Yesterday Italy registered 475 #COVID19 deaths in one day.

New 🇮🇹national institute of health @istsupsan study:

Average age of death: 79.5

Most #COVID19 deaths had co-morbidities
—76% hypertension
—35.5% diabetes
—20% cancer w/in past 5 yrs
—33% cardiac ischemia 2x / Symptoms shown by 🇮🇹 #COVID19 deaths according to new study by @istsupsan:
—2% hematosis
—7% diarrhea
—74% dyspnoea (labored breathing)
—42% cough
—77% fever

THREAD / In this time of global crisis, I did a ROUGH, UNOFFICIAL English translation of last night's remarks by Jérôme Salomon, the director of the French national health service, in which he called on France to START SOCIAL DISTANCING. via @YouTube 2x JS: At the end of January, the World Health Organization declared that the Covid-19 epidemic was a worldwide public health emergency. At the start of March, the director of the World Health Organization confirmed that we are facing a pandemic. Today, we now have +153,000

THREAD / Italy just took dramatic measures to restrict the movement of 16 million people in Lombardy, whose capital is Milan, and other northern provinces, including Venice, to prevent the spread of #Covid19. This seems drastic, but it might also be late. theatlantic.com/international/… For weeks now, the number of #Covid19 cases has been growing in Lombardy and elsewhere in northern Italy, and the death toll has also been rising dramatically. Italy has the most cases after China.