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As Covid-19 continues to spread across the United States, President Donald Trump has provided guidance to governors on the reopening of state economies in the coming months.
The “Open America Again” guidelines describe three phases in which states can gradually ease their blockades.
Trump promised the governors that they would take care of the process themselves, with the help of the federal government.
The United States has 654,301 confirmed cases and 32,186 deaths from the virus.
Trump suggested that some states could reopen this month.
What did Trump say at the briefing?
In his daily briefing on Thursday, President Trump declared “the next front in our war: opening the United States again.”
“The United States wants to be open and the Americans want to be open,” he said. “A national closure is not a long-term sustainable solution.”
He said that a prolonged confinement risked causing serious damage to public health. He warned of a “sharp increase” in drug abuse, alcohol abuse, heart disease and other “physical and mental” problems.
Trump told reporters that healthy citizens could return to work “if conditions permit.” He said that Americans will continue to be called to maintain social distancing measures and stay home if they are not feeling well.
He said the reopening of the US economy would be done “one careful step at a time,” but asked state governors to move “very, very fast, depending on what they want to do.”
What is in the plan?
The administration’s 18-page guidance document details three phases for reopening state economies, with each phase lasting a minimum of 14 days. Full guidelines can be viewed here.
They include some recommendations in all three phases, including good personal hygiene and employers who develop policies to enforce social distancing, testing, and contact tracing.
Phase one It includes much of the current closure measures, such as avoiding nonessential travel and not meeting in groups. But he says that large places like restaurants, places of worship and sports venues “can operate under strict physical distance protocols.”
If there is no evidence of a resurgence of the coronavirus, phase two Allows non-essential travel to resume. The guide says that schools can reopen and bars can function “with reduced occupancy of the living room.”
Below phase threeStates that are still seeing a downward trend in symptoms and cases may allow “public interactions” with physical distancing and unlimited staffing in the workplace. Visits to nursing homes and hospitals can be resumed and bars can increase their standing room capacity.
According to the document, some regions could begin to return to normal after a one-month evaluation period, at the earliest.
In places where there are more infections or where rates are starting to rise, it may take longer.
The coordinator of the White House coronavirus task force, Dr. Deborah Birx, said in the Thursday briefing that as states worked through all three phases, they could allow more and more employees to return to work in increments. .
Phase three would be the “new normal” and would still include suggestions that vulnerable people should avoid crowded spaces.
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What has Trump said to the governors?
The president has argued with governors in recent days about the time to ease restrictions and reopen business, but has now admitted that his powers are limited to issuing guidelines.
During Thursday’s call, Trump told the governors: “You are going to make your own decisions.”
“You will execute it, we will be helping you,” he added.
On Wednesday, the leader of the White House coronavirus workforce, Vice President Mike Pence, said that 24% of counties in the United States have not reported cases of coronavirus. He added that half of the US states. USA They have less than 2,500 cases.
The Trump administration had previously pointed to May 1 as a possible date to reopen the nation, and on Wednesday Trump said some states may reopen before that.
However, some health experts and state governors have warned against reopening the economy too soon.
On Tuesday, Dr. Anthony Fauci, the government’s top infectious disease expert, told AP news on May 1 that he was “a little too optimistic” for many areas of the country, as a strong system of testing and tracking before social distancing measures were lifted.
What have the American governors said?
New York Governor Andrew Cuomo said Thursday that his state will remain under orders to stay home until May 15.
State authorities, which is the epicenter of the outbreak in the US. The US says the situation shows signs of stabilizing this week, although there are still hundreds of deaths daily.
The Governors of Michigan, Ohio, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Illinois, Indiana and Kentucky have announced that they will work together to reopen the region.
“We recognize that all of our economies depend on each other, and we must work together to reopen them safely so that working people can return to work and companies can stand up again,” they said in a statement Thursday.
A timeline was not offered, but the governors said they planned to introduce phases in sectors of the economy.
In Michigan, which has seen more than 1,700 deaths from the virus, there has been a pushback against Governor Gretchen Whitmer’s strict shutdown measures.
Residents took to the streets on Wednesday after the governor announced that the order to stay home would be extended.
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What are other countries doing?
- Germany is reducing restrictions, stores may open from next week
- Austria has reopened thousands of stores
- France has extended its blockade to May 11
- Italy is allowing a limited number of stores to reopen in the least affected regions
- India has extended its blockade until May 3
- The UK has extended the blockade for at least three more weeks
- Denmark has said it intends to facilitate its closure faster than originally planned.
- Spain has allowed some companies to return to work
- Poland to start lifting restrictions this weekend
