Tehran 04 March_US President Donald Trump has suggested that the US is not about to close the southern border over the spread of the new coronavirus into the US.
TEHRAN, Young Journalists Club(YJC)_He made the comment during a visit to the National Institutes of Health in Maryland Tuesday.
“We’re not looking at it very strongly," he said. "I don’t think we’ve seen any great evidence that that area’s a problem at this moment."
Trump indicated Saturday that closing the southern border due to the spread was being considered.
"We have received a lot of power on the southern border over the last couple years from the courts, but we are looking at that very strongly," he said during a news conference.
There are over 60 confirmed cases of the virus in the US, where new cases are being reported on a near daily basis similar to other outbreak zones such as Iran and South Korea.
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