Washington - Sana
US state governors today strongly criticized President Donald Trump's administration plan to lift the closure across the United States amid the massive outbreak of the Corona epidemic, especially after Trump's support for public protests against the restrictions.
The criticism of Virginia, Michigan, Washington and Maryland rulers also came after Vice President Mike Pence's comments to Fox News, in which he defended the plan, saying that every US state has the ability to conduct sufficient checks to allow the economy to reopen and partially resume normalcy.
But some state governors said that the ability to conduct tests is below the level required to avoid a new outbreak of the virus. Virginia Democratic Governor Ralph Northam said in response to Trump administration claims to be able to do enough tests: “This is just an illusion .. Obviously our president has been unable From providing checks, now I choose to focus on protests. ”
In turn, Gretchen Wittmer, Michigan's Democratic governor, said: “We can double the number of checks we do every day two or three times if we have enough tools,” calling on the federal government to provide more government assistance.
Washington State Democrat Jay Inseley said that having an American president encouraging people to break the law is dangerous, while Republican Maryland Governor Larry Hogan said that encouraging Trump demonstrators who staged a sit-in at the state headquarters in Annapolis "was not helpful".
The United States has recorded more than 744,000 cases of coronavirus so far, in addition to more than 40,000 deaths.
Anti-closure protests have spread to several US cities in recent days, with support from Trump, who in a series of tweets called for the “liberation” of Michigan, Minnesota and Virginia, the states of all of their Democratic rulers, from the restrictions of home inheritance.