As the worst-hit country United States struggle to return to normalcy amid the COVID-19 crisis, President Donald Trump has claimed that the country was ‘attacked’. As of 23rd April, the country has reported over 47,000 deaths.
Addressing his daily press briefing at the White House and responding to the question of growing national debt of the country, United States President Donald Trump said that,
“We were attacked. This was an attack. This wasn’t just the flu by the way. Nobody has ever seen anything like this, 1917 was the last time.”
The national debt of the United States has been increasing because of the multi-trillion dollar stimulus package the Trump administration has come up with in order to help people and businesses as the economy has been hit severely by the novel coronavirus outbreak in the world.
Good News for Americans
Trump expressed his concerns about everything and said that there is no way but to fix it. He also said that America had the greatest economy in the world until the COVID-19 crisis hit the country. He further went onto say,
“We built it in the last three years and then one day, they came and they said you have to close it. Now, we’re going to open it again and we’re going to be just as strong or stronger but you have to spend some money to get it back open. We saved our airlines. We saved numerous companies that are great companies that two months ago were having the best year they’ve ever had. Now all of a sudden, they’re totally shut out of markets.”
In what comes as a piece of good news to the citizens of America, President Trump said that the number of positive cases in the country continues to decline. He also claimed that the hotspots are getting stabilized. The President further claimed that Chicago’s curve has flattened, Detroit has passed its peak, and cases are Boston is stabilizing.
Over 85 percent of the total cases in the world have been reported in the United States with 840,000 cases with 47,000 deaths and 84,000 recoveries. The country has conducted over 4 million tests as of 23rd April.
Source: The Hindu
