This morning, the World Health Organization (WHO) warned that there is a "very significant acceleration" in the number of Coronavirus infections in the United States and that the country could turn into a new epicenter.
"Over the past 24 hours, 85 percent of new cases worldwide were from Europe and the United States," WHO spokeswoman Margaret Harris told reporters. "Of those, 40 percent were from the United States."
Asked whether the United States could become the new epicenter, she said: “We are now seeing a very large acceleration in cases in the U.S. So it does have that potential. We cannot say that is the case yet but it does have that potential.”
“...They (the United States) have a very large outbreak and an outbreak that is increasing in intensity,” Harris added.
So far, more then 42 thousand cases of infections have been reported across the US while about 500 died.
The news came as US President Donald Trump announced that he was weighing how to reopen the US economy after a 15-day closing period expires next week, despite the rapid spread of the virus and as hospitals are preparing for a wave of corona-related deaths.
“Our country wasn’t built to be shut down,”Trump told a White House press conference. “America will again and soon be open for business,” the president added, without providing a timeline for when he believes normal economic activity could resume.
“If it were up to the doctors, they’d say let’s shut down the entire world,” Trump said. “This could create a much bigger problem than the problem that you started out with.”
He later added, “I’m not looking at months, I can tell you right now.”
On another hand, Trump considered that the anti-malarial drug produced by a French company that is currently being tested to treat patients with the Corona virus could be a "gift from God," despite scientists warning of the dangers of excessive claims about drugs that have not yet been scientifically validated.
Trump's fear of a possible rise in unemployment and a sharp fall in stock markets comes months before he faces a tough battle for re-election to the presidency.
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