so US President Donald Trump has wrapped up a press conference within the past
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