a minute agoFear of coronavirus, San Francisco proclaims a state of emergency
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(6 years ago)The city of San Francisco has declared a state of emergency over the deadly coronavirus. Such a move, according to foreign media, follows thegraphy, comes after health officials warned that its spread across the United States was inevitable. San Francisco Mayor London Breed announced the state of emergency in [...]
Such a move, according to foreign media, follows thegraphy, comes after health officials warned that its spread across the United States was inevitable.
San Francisco Mayor London Breed announced the state of emergency in a statement Tuesday, saying that “globalpanorama” around the Wuhan coronavrus is “quickly changing” and city officials “should increase readiness”.
“We see the virus spreading to new parts of the world each day,” he went on, “and we're taking the necessary steps to protect San Franciscans from impact”.
However, cases of coronary in San Francisco have not yet been reported.
Such a move comes after US health officials warned Americans to prepare for a possible spread of coronavirus.
“Disorders in daily life can be serious”, in the US, warned at a press conference Tuesday Nancy Messonnier, director of the National Immunification Centre.
Meanwhile Monday, President Donald Trump's cabinet demanded $2.5 billion from the US Congress to cope with the US coronavirus situation.
According to foreign media, Telegrafi records, cases of the virus that caused pneumonia increased to 79,331 on Monday, while 53 were confirmed in the US, according to the Centre for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
