The question of when and how the US could return to normal makes US President Donald Trump a headache.
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“I want to be led,” said Trump, who otherwise likes to present himself as a doer and does not save with self-praise. “I hope with God that it will be the right decision.”
Yuri Gripas / Reuters, April 10, 2020
“This is by far the biggest decision of my life,” Trump said at a press conference in the White House on Friday when and how the country could return to normal. He would find her in coordination with “the smartest people”.
“I want to be led,” said Trump, who otherwise likes to present himself as a doer and does not save with self-praise. “I hope with God that it will be the right decision.”
Trump announced that he would presumably present an expert panel on Tuesday to advise on the opening of the country. “I want their views on what they think,” said Trump.
Part of the “Council for the Opening of Our Country”, as Trump called the working group, are cross-party experts from different parts of the country. Trump once again made it clear that he wanted to reopen the country as soon as possible – and pointed out the dangers of staying at home: This could also lead to death in the coronavirus crisis – “maybe another type of death”, he warned.
In many countries there is now debate about how to get out of the lockdown, how to start the economy up again and at the same time how to control the number of infections (read here where Switzerland stands in this regard).
More than 500,000 infections
In the United States, a country with around 330 million inhabitants, there are significantly more known infections with the Sars-CoV-2 virus than in any other country in the world. On Friday there were already over half a million. New York is by far the most affected (read the impressive «magazine» story here “City of the Dead”). The numbers of the individual countries can only be compared to a limited extent due to the different test rates and a high number of unreported cases.
–The corpses in New York are overcrowded: the dead are temporarily buried in the poor cemetery on Hart Island in front of the Bronx neighborhood.
REUTERS / Lucas Jackson
Among the countries most affected by Covid-19 lung disease, the university has recorded the highest proportion of corona deaths relative to the population in Spain to date. According to this, around 33 people per 100,000 inhabitants died after an infection. In Italy there were around 30, in the USA there were 5 deaths per 100,000 inhabitants
USA should help Italy
Trump instructed his government on Friday to help Italy fight the corona virus. For example, military personnel stationed in Italy should help build field hospitals and transport food, it said in a memorandum published late Friday evening. Italian patients not afflicted with Covid-19 could be treated in U.S. military medical facilities.
Minister of Economics Wilbur Ross should also encourage US companies to deliver materials such as medical equipment to Italy, it said. With his help, Washington is responding to the request of the Italian government.
According to the Johns Hopkins University in the United States, Italy has recorded the highest number of fatalities as a result of the corona pandemic at 18,849. The United States followed in second place with 18,758 reported deaths until Friday evening.
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