The New York Times (NYT) has reported that about 430,000 people have entered the United States from China since China announced the occurrence of the first unexplained pneumonia in Wuhan on December 31, last year, related to the new coronavirus infection (Corona 19). Reported on the 5th (local time).

Also, on the 2nd of February, the US administration of Donald Trump reported that there have been about 40,000 immigrants from China to the United States even after imposing ban on foreigners who have been to China for the past two weeks.

This is because American citizens, permanent residents, and their families have made exceptions.

With more than 300,000 corona19 patients in the U.S. and the spreading trend unabated, NYT reports these figures based on five-day (local time) flight and other data analysis results, and the Trump administration's Corona19 response is too late, and at the US airport He pointed out that the quarantine of immigrants coming from China was also slick.

NYT said many of them entered the United States in January, before the Trump administration took measures to ban foreigners from China, including thousands of people from Wuhan, China, the source of the Corona 19 incident.

In particular, until mid-January, corona19 infection was not checked for immigrants from China, and only the immigrants who have been to Wuhan since mid-January started checking at only three airports, including Los Angeles, San Francisco, and New York, but at this time, Wuhan It was explained that about 4,000 people had already arrived.

About two weeks later, the Trump administration expanded its checks at the airport for corona19 infection to all those arriving from China.

NYT noted that the Trump administration's ban on entry into China "shows that it may have been too late," citing officials from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), about 25% of people infected with Corona19 are "asymptomatic." .

NYT pointed out that the inspection process at the airport for immigrants from China was not even uniform.

In particular, among the immigrants, it was evaluated that the procedure to check for corona19 infection at the airport was slick.

Andrew Wu (31), who arrived at Los Angeles Airport on a flight from Beijing, China on the 10th of last month, said that the airport quarantine agent read the questionnaire all the time and was not interested in checking for corona19 infection. said.

Sandler Zurinka, who departed from Beijing and arrived at Seattle-Tacoma Airport on February 29th in the United States, asked an airport quarantine agent, 'Have you ever been to Wuhan' and 'Have a fever'? Someone said he would call while recommending weekly self-containment, but he said no calls were received since then.

(yunhap news)