"Were we ready for this crisis? Clearly not ready enough," President Emmanuel Macron said. "Let's be honest: Events revealed weaknesses, deficiencies."
As coronavirus cases look set to pass 2 million worldwide on Tuesday, the pandemic's devastating march across the globe is casting a spotlight on the efforts of world leaders handling the crisis.
Although the number of patients in France's intensive care units were falling, he said, the epidemic was still not under control, as he extended lockdown measures until May 11. Adding that testing and the hope of a vaccine would fully get the country back to work. On Tuesday, Trump is set to formally launch an "opening our country council," which will be made up of economic, medical and political experts to steer the country's re-opening transition."We're going to boom," he said."It's going to go quickly. Our people want to get back to work, and I think there's pent-up demand."
"We have a lot of problems, we don’t have anything especially to brag about and we definitely mustn’t relax," he said, urging officials to use the bought time to stem the flow of the virus. In India, Prime Minister Narendra Modi also addressed his 1.3 billion population during a national television broadcast Tuesday, outlining his decision to extend the world's largest lockdown to May 3. Modi warned of the economic sacrifices needed to save lives as the number of coronavirus cases crossed 10,000, according to Reuters.
Neighboring Pakistan is also due to decide on how to proceed once its lockdown ends on Wednesday, the expectation is that some curbs will be lifted.
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