![]() ![]() It’s doable.”įact check: The official designation of a pandemic reflects the vast geographic spread of the virus and doesn’t actually change anything about how governments, public health authorities or citizens should react. “We are in this together to do the right things with calm and protect the citizens of the world. Still, it was not all doom from WHO headquarters in Geneva: “All countries can still change the course of this pandemic,” Tedros said. We cannot say this loudly enough, or clearly enough.” “And we have never before seen a pandemic that can be controlled at the same time. THE P WORD: “We are deeply concerned both by the alarming levels of spread and severity and by the alarming levels of inaction,” World Health Organization Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said Wednesday. “We have therefore made the assessment that COVID-19 can be characterized as a pandemic.”įirst time unlucky: “This is the first pandemic caused by coronavirus,” Tedros continued in his statement. ![]() Now we employ over 13,000 people in all EU member states. **A message from Huawei: #20in2020: Huawei has been active in Europe for 20 years. I’m David Herszenhorn, POLITICO’s chief Brussels correspondent, standing in for Florian who is off this week. ![]() MORNING, YES, but there’s not much good about it. index formally crossed into bear market territory - ending an 11-year bull-run, and joining Germany’s DAX and London’s FTSE, which busted into bear status earlier this week. Stock markets in free-fall: The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell again on Wednesday, closing more than 20 percent off its peak from last month. Good news for golfers: The travel restrictions exempt nations where three Trump-owned golf resorts are located, as Ryan Heath writes. The U.K., which is home to Trump Turnberry and Trump International Golf Links, and Ireland, which is home to another Trump-branded hotel and golf course at Doonbeg, aren’t in the Schengen area. ![]() #Trump freefall full#citizens.įurther reading: Here’s a transcript of Trump’s full address, and here’s the text of the travel ban. The order also doesn’t prohibit the travel of legal permanent residents and the immediate family members of U.S. “After consulting with our top government health professionals I have decided to take several strong but necessary actions to protect the health and well being of all Americans.”Ĭonfusion: After Trump finished his remarks, the Department of Homeland Security clarified that the new order would not bar all travelers from Europe, just foreign nationals. As a result a large number of new clusters in the United States were seeded by travelers from Europe,” Trump said. Gabby Orr has the story from Washington.īlame game: “The European Union failed to take the same precautions and restrict travel from China and other hot spots. The travel ban, which applies to the 26-country Schengen zone (but not to the U.K.), begins at 11:59 p.m. President Donald Trump said in an address from the Oval Office in the early hours of this morning. TRUMP BANS EUROPEAN TRAVELERS OVER CORONAVIRUS: “To keep new cases from entering our shores we will be suspending all travel from Europe to the United States for the next 30 days,” U.S. Send tips here | Tweet Listen to Playbook and view in your browser ![]()
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