Health workers in personal protective equipment work inside a new drive-thru coronavirus testing center in the Staten Island borough of New York City, March 19. REUTERS/Mike Segar
Daily Mail: Nearly one BILLION people are in lockdown across the globe as WHO warn young: 'You are not invincible'
* The global coronavirus death toll has shot past 11,000 and nations are calling for citizens to remain indoors
* Individual US states, including New York, Illinois and California are now ordering people to self-quarantine
* WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus warned young people they 'are not invincible' to the coronavirus
Close to one billion people worldwide were confined to their homes on Saturday as the global coronavirus death toll shot past 11,000 and US states rolled out lockdown measures already imposed across swathes of Europe.
The pandemic has completely upended lives across the planet, restricting movement, shutting schools and forcing millions to work from home.
While President Donald Trump insisted the United States was 'winning' the war against the virus, individual states dramatically ramped up restrictions, with New York and Illinois joining California in ordering residents to stay home.
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WNU Editor: This pandemic is now spreading into the world's heavily populated regions that include India/Pakistan/Bangladesh/Indonesia, and the continents of Africa and South America. This one billion number will probably be tripled in the next few weeks. And as for the lock-down being relaxed in Europe, from what I am reading that is still far in the future.
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Those crumpled papers near President Trump's trash bin? Some might have been US intelligence reports warning about the coronavirus. That's according to a Washington Post report about classified warnings Trump apparently received in January and February and fully ignored as he assured the American people that everything would be OK. "I think it's going to work out fine," he said on Feb. 19. "I think when we get into April, in the warmer weather, that has a very negative effect on that and that type of a virus." But US officials say that by February, most of his daily briefing papers included warnings about the coronavirus, and then-acting chief of staff Mick Mulvaney was raising the alarm in regular meetings.
But Trump rebuffed the data, officials say, because he didn't think the virus had spread in America and he believed Chinese President Xi Jingping's claim that the infection was under control. "China has been working very hard to contain the Coronavirus," Trump tweeted Jan. 24. "The United States greatly appreciates their efforts and transparency." But China has since been criticized for its slow response to the outbreak. As an aside, the Post notes that intelligence reports on the virus also went to members of Congress—including Sens. Richard Burr, Kelly Loeffler, and Dianne Feinstein, who sold off millions in stocks before the Wall Street downturn, per USA Today. The Guardian reports that Trump criticized the Post's report Saturday, calling it "a disgrace" and "very inaccurate." (Read more coronavirus stories.)
Anon,
If one day a meteorite crush a big town in the world it will be Trump responsibility....even after his death.
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