hour on the cove in nineteen outbreak the US response to it and the global

implications of the virus for more on this let's turn to our union min at the

newscenter Jungmann President Trump spoke for around 15 minutes at the White

House then took reporters questions a bit later on what did he have to say

well mark when asked about whether the u.s. is going to restrict travel to and

from South Korea and Italy president Trump said he may do that at the right

time but that's not now the president said they are checking many people

coming in from South Korea Italy and China which are among the worst-hit

countries at the moment joined at the podium by a team of u.s. senior senior

US health officials of President Trump said his administration is doing well in

dealing with the coronavirus he said the US has stopped non-us citizens from

coming into America from China while they are screening people coming into

the country from infected areas they have also tightened quarantine President

Trump added the u.s. is rapidly developing vaccines and is working with

other countries to contain the virus he said the coronavirus risk in the u.s. is

low and said there are only 15 confirmed cases but US health authorities have

earlier zatt the confirmed cases are 59 he added one is in critical condition

but most patients in the US are recovering Trump added he had a long

talk with Chinese President Xi Jinping and that the situation there seems to

have calm down he also announced he is charging Vice

President Mike Pence with leading the u.s. coronavirus in response saying

quote he's got a certain talent for this pence that the Trump administration is

will support state and local governments with full resources the CDC

representative also said vaccines are in development and they are securing

protective equipment such as face masks the president also said his

administration is working with Congress for financial support to battle the

corona virus the amount of money is expected to be at least 2.5 billion

dollars and perhaps as much as 8 billion dollars back to you mark