- President Donald Trump revealed having spoken to the President of China about the new coronavirus.
- Trump assured that China has developed an important understanding of the virus.
- Trump mentioned his conversation with China after the U.S. became the country with the highest number of infections in the world.
President Donald Trump assured this Friday that “China has developed a solid understanding of the virus“After speaking on the phone with his Chinese counterpart, Xi Jinping, about the Covid-19 pandemic, which has so far claimed the lives of more than 24,000 people worldwide.
“We are working closely together,” Trump said on Twitter, announcing his phone conversation with the president of China, without giving specific details about the content of it.
With more than 85,000 cases of coronavirus, the United States surpassed China and Italy on Thursday as the country in the world with the most infections, with New York State being its main focus, with almost 39,000 positives, he explained. Efe.
Just finished a very good conversation with President Xi of China. Discussed in great detail the CoronaVirus that is ravaging large parts of our Planet. China has been through much & has developed a strong understanding of the Virus. We are working closely together. Much respect!
– Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) March 27, 2020
“I just finished a very good conversation with President Xi of China. We discussed in great detail about the CoronaVirus that is devastating large parts of our planet. China has been through a lot and has developed a solid understanding of the virus. We are working very closely. Much respect! ”Trump tweeted.
Those killed by COVID-19 in the United States touch 1,300 after the death of at least 266 people on Wednesday, numbers that still place it behind Italy, Spain, China, Iran and France in terms of deaths.
USA surpasses China as the country with the most COVID-19 infections in the world
The United States overtook China and Italy as the country with the most infections in the world with more than 85,000 cases of coronavirus on Thursday, with New York State being its main focus, with almost 39,000 positives.
New York on the verge of collapse
New York hospitals are beginning to be overwhelmed and severely lacking in equipment amid a flurry of patients in recent days, according to testimony from doctors and employees in line with warnings from authorities.
Faced with a scenario that some describe as “apocalyptic”, a hospital ship of the United States Navy with a capacity for 1,000 patients will arrive on Monday at the port of New York “loaded to the top”, according to President Donald Trump, of medical supplies.
The USNS Comfort has to serve to relieve New York hospitals, which have more than 5,000 patients admitted by COVID-19.
“In almost all realistic scenarios, we are going to reach an overload of health system capacity,” New York Governor Andrew Cuomo acknowledged Thursday.
The state of New York and its 39,000 positives are followed by a distance from neighboring New Jersey with 6,900, California with 4,000, Washington state (3,200), Michigan (2,850) and Illinois (2,500).
Unprecedented unemployment
Unemployment has soared in March in the United States due to the economic slowdown caused by COVID-19 with an unprecedented increase of 3.28 million people who applied for job loss benefits last week. The previous week the requests had been 282,000.
The increase exceeded the all-time record of 695,000 applications that had been reached during the 1982 recession.
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