“To prevent new cases from reaching our country, I will suspend all travel from Europe to the United States for the next 30 days,” Trump said in an announcement made live to the country from the Oval Office at the White House.
The decision will take effect in the first minute of Friday, covers all foreigners who were in the Schengen area in the previous 14 days (Portugal included), but will leave the United Kingdom out.
Another decision announced to stem the epidemic was a call to Congress to “allow Americans to immediately cut wage tax rates.”
The president also informed that he will postpone the tax collection to certain companies and people affected by the epidemic, a measure that should inject more than 200 billion dollars of liquidity in the American economy.
This communication marks a reversal in the way the American president has dealt with the Covid-19 outbreak, now classified as a pandemic by the World Health Organization. Trump said this is an “unprecedented response to the coronavirus outbreak”. “We are mobilizing all the power of the federal government and the private sector to protect the American people. This is the most global and aggressive effort to confront a foreign virus in modern history, ”he said.
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