The federal government has no plans to control the coronavirus epidemic, admitted White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows in a Sunday talk. Meanwhile, Vice President Mike Pence announced that he will continue to campaign despite the fact that one of his close colleagues caught the coronavirus infection.

Coronavirus: the second wave

Half a year after the spring outbreak of the coronavirus pandemic, the second wave of the pandemic has arrived. The radical increase in the number of infected is forcing more and more countries to re-impose restrictions, despite the fact that the world economy has not even recovered from the effects of the spring outbreak. According to the posters, the second wave also reached Hungary. Follow our news!

“We will not control the epidemic. We will see that there is a vaccine, that there is a cure and that there are other ways to alleviate the damage, ”Meadows said in an interview. When asked why the Trump administration does not want to stop the epidemic, he said: because it is an infectious virus.

New York Governor Andrew Coumo says the Meadows announcement amounts to admitting total capitulation. “They surrendered without a shot. That was the great American capitulation, ”said the Democratic governor, who in New York, one of the big losers in the spring coronavirus wave, managed to keep the number of infections and deaths below average in the second wave through regular testing. and restrictive measures. . “We learned in New York: if you fight you can win. And New York won, ”said the governor.

Meanwhile, Mike Pence, Donald Trump’s vice president, has announced that he will continue the presidential campaign despite the fact that his chief of staff, Marc Short, is infected with the coronavirus. A Pence spokesman said the vice president and his wife were tested Saturday and both tested negative. So they decided not to go into voluntary quarantine.

The United States continues to be the state where the majority of people infected by Covid have been registered: the country has 8.8 carriers of the virus and the number of deaths exceeds 230,000. In the last week, the average number of new infections registered has been around 60,000 per day.



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