US President Donald Trump said on Wednesday that the United States has likely "passed the peak" of new cases of coronavirus, adding that these "encouraging advances" would allow him to unveil guidelines on Thursday to reopen the economy. "The battle continues, but the data suggests that across the country, we have passed the peak of new cases," the President said during his daily press conference.
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The United States is the country most affected by the pandemic in the world, with 27,850 deaths so far and more than 630,000 cases reported, according to the Johns Hopkins University count. "It is obvious that our aggressive strategy is working," added the American president. "These encouraging advances have placed us in a very solid position to finalize directives for the states to reopen the country," he continued, adding that he would present them on Thursday.
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"We will come back very strong, all of us"
"Tomorrow will be a very big day, we will speak with the governors, we will have information on certain openings," he said again. "We are going to reopen states, some states much sooner than others. Some states may actually open before the May 1 deadline," he said. "We are going to come back very strong, all of us," he said.
Before him on Wednesday, German Chancellor Angela Merkel also announced measures to ease the confinement to which the Germans are subject, like more than half of humanity.
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