“It could have been stopped in its tracks,” Mr Trump said March 19 at a coronavirus task force briefing at the White House. But the whole world is suffering because of it.”Now the president is praising Chinese President Xi Jinping again. Chinese health officials informed the World Health Organisation (WHO) about the new virus on December 31. Mr Yip contends the US response was far worse than China’s. “If we started responding forcibly, properly, tracked down the cases and snuffed them out, it didn’t have to spread,” Mr Yip said.

Source: Irish Independent April 02, 2020 05:03 UTC