{"id":24583,"date":"2020-04-18T11:38:00","date_gmt":"2020-04-18T11:38:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricajournal.com\/?p=24583"},"modified":"2020-04-22T11:42:43","modified_gmt":"2020-04-22T11:42:43","slug":"several-us-states-to-reopen-some-businesses-trump-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricajournal.com\/several-us-states-to-reopen-some-businesses-trump-says\/","title":{"rendered":"Several US States to Reopen Some Businesses, Trump Says"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

President Donald Trump\nsaid Saturday that several U.S. states would begin next week opening some\nbusinesses while observing coronavirus-related precautions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Texas and Vermont will\nallow certain businesses to reopen Monday, with Montana beginning on Friday,\nTrump said during a coronavirus briefing at the White House.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“We continue to\nsee a number of positive signs that the virus has passed its peak,” he\nsaid, adding, “Our testing is getting better and better,” although he\noffered no concrete evidence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Other states\u2019\ngovernors, however, have warned they will not act prematurely to reopen their\neconomies until there is more testing so as not to increase coronavirus\ninfections.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hundreds of people in\nseveral cities around the country have protested against the lockdown measures\nput in place to limit the spread of the coronavirus. The protesters are angry\nat the economic cost of the confinement orders.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Trump\nalso said during the briefing that China could face unspecified consequences if\nit was “knowingly responsible” for the coronavirus. The\nadministration has said it doesn’t rule out that the novel coronavirus was\nspread \u2014 accidentally \u2014 from a laboratory researching bats in Wuhan, where the\noutbreak began late last year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Chinese\nForeign Ministry spokesman Zhao Lijian, however, has rejected U.S. media\nreports on the subject, saying there is “no scientific basis” for the\nassertion. He has previously alleged that the U.S. military may have brought\nthe virus into China.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Research\nis still evolving, but the leading theory is that infection among humans began\nat an animal market in Wuhan, probably from an animal that got the virus from a\nbat.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

U.S., China at odds<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Washington\nand Beijing have repeatedly clashed over the virus. While Trump praised the\nChinese response to the virus at first, he and other high-level U.S. officials\nhave since become more critical, sometimes calling the pathogen the\n“Chinese virus.” They also have shot back at Chinese efforts to link\nthe U.S. military to the virus’ origin.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The\npresident’s critics in the U.S. say that although China still must be more\nforthcoming about how it has fared against the new coronavirus, he is now\ntrying to use Beijing to distract from missteps his own administration has\nmade.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Meanwhile,\na group of 13 countries called Saturday for global cooperation to reduce the\neconomic impact of the coronavirus pandemic, as infections and fatalities\ncontinued to climb worldwide.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The\ncountries said in a joint statement that \u201cit is vital that we work together to\nsave lives and livelihoods.\u201d They vowed to \u201cwork with all countries to\ncoordinate on public health, travel, trade, [and] economic and financial\nmeasures in order to minimize disruptions and recover stronger.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Members\nof the group were Britain, Indonesia, Germany, Singapore, Turkey, Canada,\nItaly, Brazil, France, Mexico, South Korea, Morocco and Peru.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Early\nsigns that restrictions to contain the outbreak in Europe are working have\nprompted authorities in Spain and France to begin dismantling some field\nhospitals.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Most\ngovernments and public health officials, however, continue to caution against\nlifting restrictions, despite the economic toll they are inflicting on world\neconomies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Canadian\nPrime Minister Justin Trudeau said Saturday that the border his country shares\nwith the U.S. would be closed to nonessential travel for another month as a\nborder agreement between the nations was set to expire next week.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In\nthe hard-hit U.S., where the debate about relaxing the restrictions has taken\non partisan tones before the November presidential election, Trump is pushing\nto lift restrictions on businesses and workers, despite the country\u2019s status as\nthe world leader in confirmed cases and fatalities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Trump\ncalled on supporters Friday who participated in street demonstrations to\n\u201cliberate\u201d three states led by Democratic governors. Demonstrations organized\nby conservative groups to more quickly lift work and commerce restrictions took\nplace this week in several U.S. states, including California, Virginia,\nMichigan, Kentucky and North Carolina.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The\nJohns Hopkins Coronavirus Resource Center reported there were now more than 2.3\nmillion confirmed COVID-19 cases around the world, with nearly 160,000 deaths,\nas of Saturday evening.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

There\nwere more than 732,000 cases and more than 38,600 fatalities in the U.S.,\naccording to the Johns Hopkins statistics.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The\nnearly six-week lockdown in Italy, second in fatalities behind the U.S.,\nappeared to be working. The country\u2019s Civil Protection Agency reported 482 new\ndeaths Saturday, the lowest daily increase since April 12. Italy has also\nexperienced a significant drop in coronavirus patients who are treated in\nintensive care units.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The\nU.N. Economic Commission said the pandemic could claim 300,000 lives in Africa\nthis year. But the World Health Organization estimated there were fewer than\n2,000 ventilators available for the hundreds of millions of people in 41\nAfrican countries, fueling concerns that chronic shortages of ventilators and\nother essential supplies could be catastrophic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Doubt about numbers<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

While\nthe number of cases in Africa appeared low, the director-general of the WHO\nsaid Friday that the numbers were most likely deceiving.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIn\nthe past week, there has been a 51% increase in the number of reported cases in\nmy own continent, Africa, and a 60% increase in the number of reported deaths,\u201d\nDr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said. \u201cWith the current challenge of obtaining\ntesting kits, it\u2019s likely that the real numbers are higher than reported.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Washington,\nhowever, rejected the notion Friday that the United States lacked adequate\ntesting capability and moved ahead with plans to gradually restart the U.S.\neconomy, while trying to keep the safety and health of its citizens a top\npriority.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Vice President Mike\nPence said he believed the U.S. had the capacity \u201cto do a sufficient amount of\ntesting\u201d for states to begin lifting restrictions \u201cin the time and manner that\nthey deem appropriate.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Some medical experts\nwere skeptical about Washington\u2019s drive to relax restrictions before widespread\ntesting, predicting that doing so would most likely result in a round of new\ninfections.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Harvard University\nresearchers warned that the U.S. could not reopen the economy without\nendangering more lives unless it tripled the number of tests it’s conducting.\nThe researchers estimated the number of tests performed each day until mid-May\nshould be between 500,000 and 700,000, far greater than the current average\ndaily of 146,000.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Worldwide broadcast<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

To help ease concern\namong millions of homebound people throughout the world, a group of celebrities\nand entertainers participated in a worldwide television broadcast Saturday to\nhonor health care workers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Global Citizen, a\nnonprofit organization, planned the event with the WHO. The two-hour event,\n\u201cOne World: Together at Home,\u201d offered a variety of entertainment, including\nmusic from Celine Dion and John Legend, comedy, and stories from health care\nand other workers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The event was\nbroadcast by numerous North American international television networks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Source: Voice of America<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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