- Coronavirus, US intelligence warned Trump of the epidemic danger
- Trump rules out a national lockdown. New York, Cuomo: "100 percent of workers stay home"
- Coronavirus, over 10 thousand cases in New York: Trump approves the state of calamity
Share
March 22, 2020 With over 25 thousand positive coronavirus cases (25,493), the United States surpasses Spain and becomes the third country in the number of infected people, after China and Italy. Over 8,000 new cases were registered within 24 hours. The death toll is 307.The 007 Americans warned Trump and Congress of the risk of a pandemic from the beginning of January, but their alarms fell on deaf ears: it is the heavy accusation that comes from the Washington Post.
"I saw the article", "I think it's a shame". So the President of the United States Donald Trump replied to a journalist who asked him to comment on what was released by the Washington Post, that in January he would have ignored the alarm of the intelligence agencies on the risk of the coronavirus which then caused a pandemic . "A really inaccurate article," he added, quoted by Guardian.
The US president offered help to North Korea against the virus
Mike Pence and his wife Karen tested negative for the coronavirus test. A spokeswoman for the vice president, who also leads the US task force against Covid-19, has made it known.