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The White House says coron19 could consider school closures or public transit disruption if the situation rises. In Latin America, the first Corona19 confirmers came out of Mexico, second only to Brazil.

Correspondent Jeong Jun-hyung reports in Washington.

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White House chief of staff Mick Mulveyni attended a conservative event and stressed that the US government is responding well to the spread of Corona19.

Corona 19 has lower mortality rates than previous illnesses such as the Ebola virus and SARS, and accused the media of questioning the government's response to hurt President Trump.

At the same time, they did not rule out the possibility of school closures or public transportation interruptions if the situation grew.

[Mick Mulveyni, Assistant Secretary of the US White House: Will some schools be closed? Perhaps it can. It can also have a significant impact on public transportation. But we know how to deal with this problem.]

However, anxiety in the United States has grown since the state of infection has not been identified in California.

[California health officials: I don't know how or how this person got infected. This type of transmission is really unusual and we didn't expect.]

New York stocks plunged again after the Dow fell more than 800 points due to concerns about the global spread of infection.

In Latin America, the first coronal confirmed patients in Mexico following Brazil.

A man in his 30s who recently returned to Italy was positive on both tests.

Another 40-year-old man was also quarantined for the first test, waiting to receive a second test.