6 succumb to Covid-19 in US
All casualties from Washington state, number of confirmed cases cross 90
Washington, March 3: The number of deaths in the US from the deadly Covid-19 rose to six on Monday while the total number of confirmed cases in the country crossed 90, Vice President Mike Pence has said.
All the six deaths in the US are from the Washington state with 43 domestic cases and 48 cases of the individuals who returned to the US, officials said on Monday. The Covid-19 outbreak that started in China’s Wuhan city in December has killed 2,943 people in the country with total confirmed cases crossing 80,000 as it continues to spread to new countries around the world.
US President Donald Trump along with Pence reviewed the situation at the White House on Monday with top health officials
and those leaders from the pharma corporate sector who are working on either vaccine or therapeutics for the Covid-19.
“Despite today’s sad
news, let’s be clear, the risk to the American people of the Covid-19 remains low according to all of the experts that we are working with across the government,” Pence told reporters at the White House. “As the president has said, we are ready for anything, but this is an all hands on deck effort,” he said. In his meeting with the leaders of the pharma industry, Trump said that since the start of the outbreak his administration has taken the most aggressive action to protect the service sense, including closing the borders very early.
“I ordered sweeping travel restrictions, increased travel advisory levels, established screening measures and imposed historic quarantines. We have quarantines all over the country, a lot of them,” he said. “The Covid-19 shows the importance of bringing manufacturing back to America so that we are at home the medicines and equipment and everything else that we need to protect the public's health and I have been talking about this for a long time,” Trump said.