“Where our real threat is right now is Europe. That’s where the cases are coming in from. If you want to be blunt, Europe is the new China,” said Robert Redfield, director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Homeland Security Deputy Secretary Ken Cuccinelli testifies before the Senate Homeland Security Committee during a hearing on the government’s response to the novel coronavirus outbreak on March 5, 2020 in Washington, DC. Samuel Corum/Getty Images/AFPThe United States is weighing a ban on travelers from Europe to slow the spread of the coronavirus, a senior US official said Wednesday.
“That is not to the level of using legal authorities to block travel yet. But it is under consideration,” he told a congressional hearing. “Europe presents a unique problem,” he said, pointing to the Schengen Area that maintains open borders between most of the Western European countries. But Cuccinelli said the United States does not have adequate resources to screen travel by Italians or others who are flying indirectly to the United States from Europe.Earlier a top government health expert said the largest threat to the country with respect to the virus is transmission from Europe.
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