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President Trump stated the White Home task force would concentrate on “opening our nation”.
US President Donald Trump has said the coronavirus job force will move its focus to reopening the economy, a day after suggesting it would be disbanded.
Mr Trump said the group would “advance indefinitely” and “focus on security [and] opening up our nation”.
It is not clear how exactly the task force will alter, but Mr Trump said “we might include or deduct people to it”.
New confirmed infections daily in the US presently top 20,000, and day-to-day deaths go beyond 1,000
United States health authorities have cautioned that the infection may spread out as services begin to reopen.
The US currently has 1.2 million verified coronavirus infections and more than 71,000 associated deaths, according to Johns Hopkins University which is tracking the pandemic.
What did President Trump state?
In a series of tweets on Wednesday, Mr Trump stated the task force had actually “done a wonderful job of uniting vast [and] extremely complex resources”.
He praised Vice-President Mike Pence, who heads the group, and said it had “set a high requirement for others to follow”.
” Since of this success, the Task Force will advance forever with its focus on safety & opening our country once again,” Mr Trump said.
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” We’re now looking at a little bit of a various type, and that kind is safety and opening,” Mr Trump told journalists on Tuesday.
Mr Pence likewise informed press reporters in an instruction on Tuesday that the task force could quickly be wound down.
He said the Trump administration was “starting to look at the Memorial Day [late May] window, early June window as a time when we could begin to transition back to having our firms begin to manage, start to handle our national reaction in a more standard manner”.
A shift in priorities for the task force
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