03/12/2020 05:23
(Act. 12.03.2020 05:32)
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Trump announced 30-day entry ban from Europe
© APA (GETTY IMAGES NORTH AMERICA)
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The United States imposes a 30-day general entry ban on people wishing to travel to the United States from Europe because of the corona virus.
The entry ban should come into effect on Friday at midnight (local time), US President Donald Trump announced on Wednesday in a television speech. According to him, the entry ban does not apply to Great Britain.
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Deferral of tax payments
To prevent further entry of people infected with the corona virus, “we will suspend all travel from Europe to the United States for the next 30 days,” said the President of the United States. Americans who undergo appropriate tests are exempt. Trump said on the grounds that the EU had not taken the same protective measures as the US and had not stopped traveling from China to Europe early enough.
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Trump also announced relief efforts for employees who are ill, in quarantine, or who care for people with the virus. Government support should also be given to companies affected by the infections. This includes postponing tax payments.
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37 dead
The corona virus is now spreading increasingly in the United States. To date, at least 37 people in the United States have died of Covid 19 disease. According to statistics from Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, more than 1,100 people in the United States are now infected with the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus.
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The number of unreported cases is likely to be significantly higher because, according to the CDC health agency, only a little over 11,000 people have been tested for the virus so far. Tests delivered in the USA after the outbreak of the crisis sometimes gave incorrect results, and there were also bottlenecks. Critics accuse Trump of not reacting energetically enough to the crisis. The spread of the virus has led to dramatic falls in US stock markets.
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Travel advice reinforced
Trump had already put an end to entry for foreign travelers who had been to China the previous 14 days at the end of January. The Coronavirus Sars-CoV-2 had spread from China. At the end of February, the US president then issued a corresponding regulation for foreigners who had been in Iran in the two weeks before. At the same time, travel information for affected parts of the country in Italy and South Korea was tightened. The virus has spread rapidly in Iran, South Korea and Italy.
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The director of the National Institute for Infectious Diseases in the United States, Anthony Fauci, said at a congressional hearing that the virus would continue to spread to the United States. “The bottom line will be worse.” Fauci called on people to adapt their behavior to the crisis. “How much worse it will be will depend on our ability to do two things: contain the influx of people who are infected from outside, and the ability to contain and mitigate in our own country.”
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