Donald Trump says he takes the coronavirus very seriously. On Wednesday, however, he cracked a joke on the precautionary measures put forward by the experts.
The American president joined at the last moment a meeting on the epidemic, organized by the vice-president Mike Pence, in the presence of the leaders of the large American airlines.
During a tour de table, Deborah Birx, diplomat in charge of the coordination of this file within the White House, repeated, in front of the cameras, a set of instructions of “common sense”: “Do not touch your face, wash your hands”.
“I haven’t touched my face for weeks,” said the President of the United States, amused. “I miss it!”, He added.
Washington State, on the west coast, was the hardest hit in the United States by the coronavirus, with 27 confirmed cases and nine deaths. About 100 cases have been diagnosed in the rest of the country.
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