China News Service, April 2nd. The U.S. White House official website released news that on April 1, local time, US President Trump announced that North Dakota and Hawaii had entered a "major disaster" state and ordered the federal government to provide assistance.

Earlier, more than 20 states including Montana, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Alabama, Kansas, and Rhode Island, 2 overseas territories, and Washington, DC had entered a "major disaster" state.

According to data from Johns Hopkins University, as of 4:55 am on April 2, Beijing time, a total of 209,071 confirmed cases of new crown pneumonia have occurred in the United States, and 4,633 have died. Among them, New York State has accumulated a total of 83,948 diagnoses, which is the worst state in the United States.