Coronavirus / USA: President Donald Trump downplayed the corona pandemic at the beginning, now the United States with the most infected people worldwide has become a hotspot.
- The United States has been hard hit by the corona pandemic and has the highest number of people infected worldwide.
- US President Donald Trump * initially downplayed the dangers of the corona virus.
- Trump is now under pressure due to the high infection and death rate.
- Here you will find the basic facts * about the corona virus. You can also find current case numbers in Germany as a map. The following recommendations for corona protective measures are currently available.
Update from April 7, 10:38 a.m .:
President Donald
Trump
has an agreement with the company
3M
announced that in the coming months as a whole
166.5 million protective masks for healthcare workers in the United States
should deliver. 3M should deliver 55.5 million additional "high quality" masks per month, Trump said at the White House Corona Crisis Unit weekly press conference on Monday.
Last week, Trump brought into play a wartime Korean industrial production law to prioritize 3M production for the country's security needs. With the Defense Production Act, the US government can oblige companies to accept orders.
The company defended its export policy and warned of the "humanitarian consequences" if it stopped exporting to Canada and Latin America, where it was a "key supplier". Canada's Prime Minister Justin Trudeau had also pushed for trade to continue.
Monday's agreement with Washington now allows 3M to continue exporting US-made masks to Canada and Latin America, the company said. Trump, on the other hand, was pleased that the "3M saga" had a "very happy" ending.
Corona in the US: In the midst of the crisis - Donald Trump dismisses the next senior security guard
Update of April 5, 11:40 a.m .: After the impeachment proceedings against Donald Trump ended , the US President announced the dismissal of another senior representative of the security apparatus: This time it hit the Inspector General of Intelligence, Michael Atkinson .
In a letter to the Senate Intelligence Committee on Friday, Trump said he had lost confidence in Atkinson. Trump did not provide specific reasons.
Atkinson had played an important role in the impeachment proceedings regarding the Ukraine affair against Trump: Atkinson had forwarded the complaint of a whistleblower to the then National Director of Intelligence, Joseph Maguire.
As a result, Trump was hoping to gain personal political benefits from Ukraine in violation of U.S. law by putting pressure on the Kiev government to harm his U.S. presidential rival Joe Biden. The complaint became the basis for the impeachment proceedings .
Coronavirus USA: Trump announces "very terrible times" - another measure in New York
Update of April 5, 2020, 7:39 am: In the face of the coronavirus pandemic , US President Donald Trump has attuned the population to "very terrible times" . The week ahead is likely to be the toughest, Trump said on Saturday. In the United States, more than 311,000 people have now contracted the novel corona virus , and more than 8,300 people have died . The US president has now announced that he will send a thousand military doctors and nurses to the particularly hard-hit city of New York.
At the daily press briefing at the White House in Washington, Trump said that there would be a large number of deaths. But he also emphasized that the US could not come to a standstill in the long run. "We won't destroy our country," he said, adding, "At some point, there will be some tough decisions to make."
Chancellor Angela Merkel is now advising the Cabinet of Crisis on further corona measures in Germany. *
First report from April 4, 2020:
Donald Trump in the Corona crisis: Reality quickly caught up with the President
Washington - The Corona Crisis * hits the United States. More than 275,000 coronavirus infections have now been identified in the United States. In times of the pandemic, crisis management by US President Donald Trump * is now in demand. However, the president downplayed the problem a few weeks ago, saying that "everything was under control", but the situation became more and more serious. Now the death toll has risen to 7,159 , as calculated by Johns Hopkins University.
In mid-March, the President * finally declared a nationwide emergency and announced 100,000 deaths . The 73-year-old recently recommended that his citizens protect themselves with scarves. Medical masks should be reserved for specialist staff in hospitals due to the lack of food.
Donald Trump in the Corona crisis: Reality quickly caught up with the President
US authorities recently secured more than 190,000 hoarded protective masks and 600,000 medical gloves that should go after medical personnel. Trump * previously said that nobody should take advantage of the American plight. As in many other countries, appropriate protective clothing has become junk in the United States.
In return, politicians from various countries, including France and Germany, accused the USA of deliberately buying goods for other countries at higher prices. Masks intended for the Berlin police had been confiscated in Thailand by the USA, whereupon the Berlin senator Andreas Giesel described the US government's action as an "act of modern piracy ".
Donald Trump in the Corona crisis: Reality quickly caught up with the President
The US President * fired Twitter against Iran in the corona crisis and warned of " surprise attacks " on US units in Iraq. Trump accused Iran and its allied militias of planning an attack on U.S. soldiers or facilities in Iraq. Trump announced this last Wednesday via Twitter. "If that happens, Iran will pay a very high price." Trump seems to want to put a foreign policy exclamation mark regarding the Iran conflict * in his way in the national crisis.
AFP, ar, cia
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