Us president has declared a National Emergency over the coronavirus pandemic and says likely hell soon be tested after possibly being exposed trumps announcement freeze a 50000000000. 00 to address a growing crisis that hes been accused of previously downplaying hours earlier the World Health Organization said the epicenter had moved from china to europe or italy has the highest number of infections and deaths spain is declaring an emergency as other e. U. Countries closed their borders wall street meanwhile ward back from huge losses the day before european stocks were also up capping a rollercoaster week alan fischer has more on the new steps taken and washington d. C. From the u. S. President a dramatic announcement officially declaring a National Emergency. 2 very big words with more than 40 dead and the number of infected growing the president has opened up funding include states to take important steps to blunt the spread of the virus emerging every state to set up Emergency Oper
League is the latest coronavirus casualty all games are off until april at the earliest. The us president has declared a National Emergency over the coronavirus pandemic and says likely he will soon likely be tested after possibly being exposed announcement for his a 50000000000. 00 to address this growing crisis that he has actually downplayed hours earlier the World Health Organization said the epicenter had moved from china to europe or italy has the highest number of infections and its spain a sickly are in an emergency as other e. U. Countries close their borders and in 2 hours from now u. S. Travel ban from most of europe will come into effect lets begin our coverage with alan fischer who is in washington d. C. So allan donald trump a spent weeks trying to say that this isnt that big of a deal hes used the term hoax hes tweeted a quick turnaround how effective might this be to really get things done. Well with more than 40 deaths with more than 2000 cases they cleared donald trum
A 30 day banned by the u. S. And old flights from europe excluding the u. K. And ireland has just come into effect theyve been reports of long queues at some european airports as people try to beat the deadline President Trump announced the ban on wednesday in a bid to combat the spread of coronavirus he says the e. U. Has been too slow to react to the outbreak and blame travelers from europe for infections in the u. S. Lets go live to rob reynolds hes in los angeles for us now rob so youre there at one of the busiest airports in the u. S. Tell us whats been happening. There and im at the Los Angeles International Airport International terminal of the tom bradley terminal things are fairly busy right now despite the ban having gone into effect just moments ago many of the people that you can see behind me inside the doors of the terminal are lining up for ticket counters at korean air thats not one of the countries yet that has been affected so a lot of people seem to be. For whatever
English premier league is suspended a may not be finished due to coronavirus none of the stuff we see for Club Officials have met in london or goings or off until at least the start of a. Deadly mistake thats the warning from the World Health Organization to any country not moving to take tough measures against coronavirus it says europe is now the epicenter of the outbreak nations across the continent already imposing drastic new measures to contain the virus spain today declared a state of emergency from saturday allowing the government to confine people and to evacuate buildings elsewhere Security Forces are being deployed to clear the streets of iran in the next 24 hours more global sporting events have also been affected games in the English Premier League one of the worlds was watched competitions in any sport have been suspended until at least april while 2 more formula one races have been called off but theres also been some news perhaps on Global Markets tensions easing there
A bid to calm one of the worlds worst outbreaks. Game over for now the pandemic causes the counseling if Englands Premier League and formula one. Hello we begin our coverage in the United States where President Donald Trump has now declared a National Emergency because of the coronavirus he says it will give the individual states access to a pool of 50000000000. 00 in the fight against the virus hospitals will be asked to activate Emergency Preparedness plans and half a 1000000 extra tests should be available by next week to unleash the full power of the federal government that the separate today i am officially declaring a National Emergency 2 very big words. The action i am taking will open up access to up to 50000000000. 00 of very importantly for important and a large about of money for states and territories and localities in our shared fight against this disease in furtherance of the order emerging every state to set up Emergency Operation centers Effective Immediately and also a