COVID-19: US now in next stage of battle, has flattened curve: Trump


PTI, May 6, 2020, 7:41 AM IST

Washington: Asserting that the United States has flattened the curve on coronavirus, President Donald Trump said on Tuesday, May 5 that the country is now in the next stage of the battle, which is a “very safe phased and gradual reopening”.

“Thanks to the profound commitment of our citizens, we have flattened the curve and countless American lives have been saved. Our country is now in the next stage of the battle. A very safe, phased and gradual reopening of our country,” Trump said in his remarks at Honeywell International in Phoenix.

According to John Hopkins University, which tracks coronavirus patients, by Tuesday, more than 71,000 Americans had died due to the deadly virus and over 12 lakh had tested positive.

However, there has been a sharp decline in the number of new cases and deaths in the country in the last one week, prompting Trump to say that the country has been able to flatten the curve.

“This pandemic has underscored the vital importance of reassuring US supply chains and constructing a powerful domestic manufacturing base,” he said,

“I have been talking about that for a long time. Oftentimes, you would see a plant like this at a different country doing the work you can be doing, and you will do it better,” the president said.

“The United States declared its independence nearly 250 years ago, but in recent decades, Washington politicians allowed our independence to be offshored, outsourced, and ceded to foreign countries. But we are taking it back and we have been taking it back. And you look at our job numbers, you knew that we were taking it back,” Trump said.

“As such his administration believes in two simple rules buy American and hire Americans,” he added.

“The people of our country are warriors. With your help, we will vanquish the virus and build a future of greatness and glory with the American heart, American hands, American pride, and American soul,” he said.

Referring to his visit to the Honeywell factory that is producing masks, Trump said they are producing high-quality N95 respirators.

“There is no bad masks like various countries have been sent some very bad masks from other places. There is nothing like that at Honeywell. Respirators are there to protect our heroic doctors and nurses as they fight the unseen enemy,” he said.

“More than 150 Honeywell employees are working around the clock, three shifts a day, six days a week. Think of this what you have done. You are part of this incredible industrial mobilization, the biggest since World War II. Hard to believe for an invisible enemy, but it is a vicious enemy, smart enemy,” he said.

“Like generations of patriots before you, the workers of this factory are pouring their heart and soul and blood into defending our nation and keeping our people healthy and safe,” the president said.

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