IT’S ‘CHINA VIRUS’, NOT CORONAVIRUS WHICH SOUNDS LIKE A BEAUTIFUL PLACE IN ITALY, SAYS U.S. PRESIDENT MORE CURBS IN HARD-HIT MADRID

Washington, Sept. 23: US President Donald Trump has hit out at China for not stopping the Covid19 pandemic that has claimed hundreds of thousands of lives globally, as he yet again used the term “China virus” and urged his supporters not to call it Coronavirus, saying the name sounds like a “beautiful place” in Italy.

Addressing a packed election rally in the battle ground State of Pennsylvania, Trump told his supporters on Tuesday that if re-elected, over the next four years, his administration will make America a manufacturing superpower of the world and will end US reliance on China once and for all.

Describing the November 3 election as a “matter of economic survival”, Trump said that the country was doing great on economic front before the plague was unleashed on the United States, and blamed China for it. “You had the greatest year you have ever had last year, and you were really on your way — we were very, very sadly disturbed by what happened with China. They let the plague out. They shouldn’t have done it,” he said.

“We built the greatest economy in the history of the world. And right now we’re doing it again,” he asserted. —

Madrid, Sept. 23: Health authorities in Madrid may extend to more communities the restrictions on movement it imposed on areas of the Spanish capital with high Coronavirus infection rates.

About 860,000 Madrid residents already are required to justify trips out of 37 neighbourhoods. The region's deputy health chief, Antonio Zapatero, said Wednesday that a decision on additional measures would be announced on Friday.

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