Trump said fallout from the pandemic has hit the United States harder than the December 7, 1941 Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor or the September 11, 2001 Al-Qaeda attacks on New York and Washington. "This is worse than Pearl Harbor. The surprise Japanese attack on the Pearl Harbor naval base in Hawaii drew the United States into World War II. In Britain, Prime Minister Boris Johnson said some lockdown measures could be scaled back from next week, though he warned against moving too briskly. Trump also backpedaled on scrapping his coronavirus task force after Vice President Mike Pence suggested it could be done away with by early June.

Source: Dhaka Tribune May 07, 2020 00:33 UTC