White House chief federal health officer Dr. Anthony Fauci told CNN that US President Donald Trump has decided not to quarantine parts of New York, New Jersey and Connecticut after an overnight consultation at the White House with his advisers and representatives of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious diseases.
“After negotiations with the president, we made it clear, and he agreed that it would be much better to do what is called strong advisory assistance,” said Fauchi, who is also the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases.
According to him, the best way to protect people from traveling and leaving home should be recommendations, not a very strict quarantine. “The president agreed, and that is why he made this decision not to impose quarantine,” Fauchi concluded.
Meanwhile
On Sunday, Dr. Fauci announced that at the current rate of pandemic, the death toll from coronavirus in the United States could reach 200,000. According to Fauci, about 56% of new infections in the country come from the New York area. Meanwhile, already 704,095 people as of 21:30 Sunday Moscow time fell ill with coronavirus in the world, of which 132,637 in the United States. This is reported by Johns Hopkins University, which keeps statistics of online coronavirus infected on its website. Over 36 hours, the United States had a 30-percent increase in the number of cases.
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