Welcome to the Real Vision Daily Briefing, where our team of journalists analyze the most important events of the day within the framework of key real vision themes. That's macro, liquidity, market structure, and

crypto. We cover it all. Hi, I'm Nkara for Real Vision.

It's Tuesday, April 7th, 330 PM in North Arlington, New Jersey where I'm reporting

from.

We have Ash, Ben Bennington and Ed Harrison standing

by for their market analysis, but before we go to them, let's take a quick look

at the latest news and data on the ongoing coronavirus pandemic.

Globally, the total confirmed case count is at 1.38 million,

set to surpass 1.5 million over the next two days.

The global number of deaths stands at 79,000,

with GMI forecasting this count to get up to 100,000 deaths by Friday,

a very grim milestone.

However, it's not all bad news, that death rate does appear to be slowing, as is the growth of daily active cases.

And in a press briefing this morning, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo offered some

additional reasons for hope.

And right now we're projecting that we are reaching a plateau in the total number of

hospitalizations and you can see the growth and you see it's starting to

flatten. This is good news for New York, but the state's number of active cases remains well above the GMI forecast.

In Europe, the active number of cases is beginning to plateau.

But with Spain, Germany, and France well behind Italy, we likely haven't seen a true peak yet.

In other news, British Prime Minister Boris Johnson is an intensive care unit,

receiving treatment for severe coronavirus symptoms. He is not on a ventilator but he is receiving

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