唐纳德·特朗普总统周二宣布，他将“爱”这个将于4月12日复活节前重新开放的国家。
特朗普说：“由于其他原因，这是非常重要的一天，但我也将其作为重要的一天。我很想让这个国家开放，并渴望在复活节之前去。”
在美国，导致COVID-19的新冠状病毒病例激增，超过46,000人检测出阳性，其中593人死亡。全国各州已经关闭了重要企业，并建议人们在任何可能的情况下都应留在家中，以遏制新的冠状病毒的传播。
在周二的福克斯新闻冠状病毒市政厅期间，特朗普表示，美国并非旨在关门，并主张尽快恢复近乎正常的行动。
特朗普说：“我们的国家不是建立在关闭的基础上，我们的人民充满朝气，活力和活力，他们不想被锁在房屋，公寓或某些空间中。” “我们不是那样建立的。”
总统补充说，关闭企业，使人们失业可能会“破坏”这个国家。他在星期一晚上重申了他的信息，即他不希望“治愈比问题本身更糟”。
特朗普在经济领域建立了总统职位和连任竞选活动，并被指控轻描淡写新型冠状病毒的威胁。然而，总统支持他的早期决定，即限制从该病毒起源地中国的旅行以及随后的限制。
欧洲和中国的疫情以及旅行限制和咨询，对航班的需求减少以及迫使航空公司取消了大量旅行。这给旅游业造成了损失，一家航空业集团美国航空估计，该行业将至少需要500亿美元的援助。
特朗普已承诺帮助航空公司以及餐馆。多个州都限制餐厅提供外卖和送货服务，以防止大批人聚集在一个地方，以降低接触风险。
纽约的宽松规定包括允许餐馆在外带和外带菜单中暂时包含酒精饮料。这项工作是州长安德鲁·库莫（Andrew Cuomo）希望减轻财政负担的一项努力，但全国各地数十万的接待人员已经被解雇。
为了帮助人们在疫情中生存，特朗普指示小企业管理局向小企业提供低息贷款，并支持向美国人民寄送支票。他说，最终，他希望重新开放该国，并早日实现。在美国和加拿大，一个在美国和加拿大拥有300,000多名工人的工会此前曾对《新闻周刊》表示，它预计随着大流行的继续，其80％至90％的工人（相当于大约240,000至270,000人）将失业。根据经济政策研究所的数据，到夏天，可能有多达300万个工作机会流失。
特朗普在市政厅表示：“可以通过关闭国家来摧毁这个国家。” “人们将破产，他们将破产。”
但是，官员警告说，过早重新开放该国可能会导致疫情再次爆发。当被问及美国国家过敏和传染病研究所所长安东尼·福奇博士是否同意重新开放该国时，特朗普表示，他“不同意”。
福西（Fauci）指出，在WMAL的《早晨在购物中心》（Mornings on the Mall）上接受采访时，“正在进行非常激烈的讨论”，以缓解社会疏离限制。他说，特朗普正试图平衡疫情对经济和公共卫生问题的“巨大影响”。此时，仅权衡一项措施对公共卫生影响的福西（Fauci）表示，关于缓解措施的数据不足，无法知道它们是否使曲线趋于平缓。
特朗普政府为遏制病毒传播而制定的为期15天的计划将于周一到期，总统表示，届时将重新评估局势。
特朗普周二说：“如果我们需要更多时间，我们会给它更多时间，但我们必须开放这个国家。” “我们可以与自己保持社交距离，然后上班。”
TRUMP WANTS COUNTRY OPEN BY EASTER, SAYS AMERICA WASN'T 'BUILT' TO BE SHUT DOWN BECAUSE OF CORONAVIRUS
President Donald Trump announced on Tuesday that he would "love" the country to be reopened by Easter, which falls on April 12.
"It's such an important day for other reasons but I'll make it an important day for this too. I'd love to have the country opened up and raring to go by Easter," Trump said.
Cases of a new coronavirus that causes COVID-19 have spiked in the United States as more than 46,000 people have tested positive and 593 have died. States across the country have closed essential businesses and advised people to stay home whenever possible to curb the spread of a new coronavirus.
During a Fox News coronavirus town hall on Tuesday, Trump said that America wasn't designed to shut down and advocated for returning to nearly normal operations as soon as possible.
"Our country is not built to shut down, our people are full of vim and vigor and energy, they don't want to be locked into a house or apartment or some space," Trump said. "We're not built that way."
The president added that keeping businesses closed and people out of work could "destroy" the country, and he repeated a message he sent Monday night that he didn't want the "cure to be worse than the problem itself."
Trump built his presidency and re-election campaign around the economy and has been accused of downplaying the threat of a new coronavirus. The president, however, championed his early decision to restrict travel from China, where the virus originated, and subsequent restrictions.
Outbreaks in Europe and China, as well as, travel restrictions and advisories, reduced demand for flights and forced airlines to cancel massive numbers of trips. It's taken a toll on the tourism industry and Airlines for America, an airline industry group, estimated the industry will need at least $50 billion in aid.
Trump has promised to help airlines, as well as, restaurants. Multiple states have limited restaurants to take-out and delivery services to prevent large groups of people from gathering in one place in an attempt to decrease the risk of exposure.
Easing regulations in New York include allowing restaurants to temporarily include alcoholic beverages in take-out and delivery menus. The effort is one that Governor Andrew Cuomo hopes will lessen the financial burden, but hundreds of thousands of hospitality workers across the country have already been laid off.
To help people survive during the outbreak, Trump instructed the Small Business Administration to offer low-interest loans to small businesses and has supported sending checks to the American people. Ultimately, he said, he wants to reopen the country and do it sooner rather than later.Unite Here, a labor union with more than 300,000 workers in the U.S. and Canada, previously told Newsweek that it anticipates 80 to 90 percent of its workers, equivalent to about 240,000 to 270,000 people, will be out of work as the pandemic continues. By summer, it's possible as many as 3 million jobs could be gone, according to the Economic Policy Institute.
"You can destroy a country this way by closing it down," Trump said during the town hall. "People are going to go out of business and they're going to go bankrupt."
However, officials have warned that reopening the country too soon could cause a resurgence of the outbreak. When asked on Monday if Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute for Allergy and Infectious Diseases, agreed with reopening the country, Trump said he didn't "not agree."
Fauci noted that easing social distancing restrictions were "under very intense discussion" during an interview with WMAL's Mornings on the Mall. He said that Trump was attempting to balance the "enormous impact" the outbreak was having on the economy and public health issues. At this point, Fauci, who only weighs a measure's impact on public health, said there wasn't enough data on mitigation efforts to know if they were flattening the curve.
The Trump administration's 15-day plan to curb the spread of the virus is set to expire on Monday, at which point, the president said they'll reassess the situation.
"We'll give it some more time if we need more time but we have to open this country up," Trump said on Tuesday. "We can social distance ourselves and go to work."
