US President Donald Trump warned China of the consequences if it did not knowingly intervene and prevent the spread of coronavirus to the world. The virus first appeared at the turn of the year in Wuhan, China, and China faces allegations that it initially concealed the disease.
According to Trump, it is now necessary to ask whether the spread of coronavirus was a "defect that was out of control" or whether it was the result of conscious action.
"If it was a mistake, so be it, it is a mistake. But if they are consciously responsible, then of course they should bear the consequences," Reuters told Trump. Beijing to undertake.
According to Trump, US-China relations were good "until [the Chinese] did this". The US President also questioned Chinese statistics on coronavirus victims. Beijing announced on Friday that it revised the figures and added another 1,300 deaths to the balance sheet, more than a third of China's total.
The head of the White House has previously criticized Beijing for lack of transparency in the fight against coronavirus. He also stopped US funding for the World Health Organization (WHO) this week, which he says shunned China.
Texas, Vermont and Montana release measures, Florida opened beaches
US states of Texas and Vermont will open some businesses on Monday that have been closed for fear of coronavirus spread. The state of Montana will begin easing restrictive measures on Friday. At a press conference on the night of CEST, the US President said. Reopened beaches and parks have been filled with people in Florida, Reuters reported today.
The United States is the country that has been the worst affected by coronavirus worldwide. The number of coronavirus infections there exceeded 35,000, with more than 690,000 confirmed cases of infection. But the hard-hit US state of New York, for example, believes that the epidemic peak is over.