Trump Just Banned All Travel From Europe to Stop The Coronavirus DMT.NEWS
WASHINGTON — President Trump just announced a 30-day travel ban from Europe to the United States in an attempt to slow the spread of the novel coronavirus.
The ban will take place Friday, Trump said in a rare, primetime address to the nation, seated in the Oval Office.
“We will be suspending all travel from Europe to the United States for the next 30 days,” Trump said, blasting coronavirus as “a foreign virus.”
The ban marked a stunning and unprecedented response to stem the outbreak that was officially classified as a pandemic by the World Health Organization earlier Wednesday, and was accompanied by a rollout of proposals to boost the economy in the face of a stunning stock market drop that has rattled investors and businesses.
“The virus will not have a chance against us,” Trump pledged. “We have the best economy, the most advanced health care and the most talented doctors and scientists anywhere in the world.”
In typical Trumpian language likely to draw fire from critics, the president praised his own administration for blocking flights from China in January and said that Europe’s failure to follow suit had resulted in a rise of infections on the continent.
“The European Union failed to take the same precautions and restrict travel from China and other hotspots,” Trump said, adding without explanation or evidence that incidents of infection in the U.S. had been “seeded by travelers from Europe.”
Shortly after the president wrapped his speech, a publicist for Tom Hanks confirmed that the actor and his wife had tested positive for COVID-19, the virus caused by the coronavirus, the first celebrities to disclose it. The couple was in Australia for production an untitled Elvis Presley movie, in which Hanks is playing Presley’s manager Colonel Tom Parker. That they were able to be tested highlights the gap between the United States and other countries where testing is widely available.
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Cover: President Donald Trump speaks in an address to the nation from the Oval Office at the White House about the coronavirus Wednesday, March, 11, 2020, in Washington. (Doug Mills/The New York Times via AP, Pool)
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