Trump: Coronavirus Crisis Worse Than 9/11 Attacks

The U.S. President, Donald Trump, said on Wednesday that the novel coronavirus crisis is worse than the September 11, 2001 attacks on the World Trade Center in New York City.

In the Oval Bureau in Washington, Trump said that the COVID-19 crisis is “worse” than the surprise attack by Japan in 1941 on the Pearl Harbor military base in the Hawaiian Islands, according to the French Press News Agency late Wednesday. 

"This should not have happened," added Trump who faces unprecedented challenges due to the novel coronavirus crisis.

The attacks of September 11 killed nearly three thousand people, while the health crisis killed more than 72,000 people due to complications of the “COVID-19”.

The New York Times reported that the U.S. president confirmed the continuation of the novel coronavirus crisis cell process responsible for the coronavirus crisis in the country indefinitely, after the United States became the most affected country by the virus in terms of the number of infections and deaths.

Trump's reassurance came after the U.S. Vice President, Mike Pence, signaled the end of the crisis cell, by the end of this month, May, in a step that would pave the way for a return to normal life without health restrictions.

Trump Under Criticism 

The U.S. president has been facing criticism for his defense of reopening the economy, despite the absence of significant progress in containing the pandemic, despite opposition from experts and health officials.

In the meantime, Trump accepts to run in presidential elections in the upcoming November. It’s anticipated that Democratic candidate Joe Biden, former U.S. Vice Then-President Barack Obama, is likely to face Trump.

The president was presenting the positive economic figures in the United States as a major achievement, but the novel coronavirus crisis has resulted in tens of millions of Americans losing their jobs due to the closure imposed to stem the spread of the virus.

Earlier, the U.S. president confirmed that the United States has made “great progress” in treating the novel Corona virus “Covid-19″, despite the continuing worsening crisis caused by the pandemic in the country.

“We have made great progress in the treatment processes,” Trump said at a crisis cell news conference, and he also indicated his administration’s efforts to cooperate with specialized companies, stressing that clinical tests were performed on 10 drugs.

He announced the approval to convert a US Marine ship in New York to an anti-Corona hospital.

Trump indicated that billions of dollars will be allocated as aid to American hospitals, and he also said that an agreement had been reached with “3M” Company to supply 166.5 million medical masks.

The US president indicated that 125,000 people are subjected to Corona tests per day in the country, a number he said is the highest among all countries of the world, adding that the US administration is building 22 hospitals for Corona patients in 18 states.

In the context, Trump praised the initiative of the American Apple company to participate in the manufacture of medical masks with high quality, and pledged to provide more than 166 million masks in the coming months, especially to protect medical personnel from infection with the virus.

He stated that he had a serious phone conversation about the Corona crisis with Joe Biden, who is competing for the Democratic Party’s nomination for the US presidential elections.

Trump is under fire for his administration’s handling of the Corona virus, especially the health sector, but the U.S, president says his government is taking unprecedented measures to address the issue.

The United States has the highest number of infections of the Corona virus with more than 350 thousand cases, and the third in terms of death toll of more than 10 thousand.