President of the United States Donald trump gave a new forecast for the number of victims of coronavirus in the United States. He told about it to journalists of Fox News, reports TASS.
According to him, the country can die 100 of thousands of patients with the coronavirus, which is significantly higher compared to its previous forecast. “We will lose from 75-80 up to 100 thousand people”, — said trump, calling it a “terrible situation.”
on April 15 trump announced that the peak of the epidemic of coronavirus in the United States is passed. Later, he predicted that the mortality rate will be in the range of 60-65 thousand people. Trump also added that the country could die of 2.2 million people, if the government did nothing. The minimum number of victims, according to his estimate, would be $ 1.6 million.
the Total number of people infected with coronavirus, the world has close to 3.5 million people, of whom about one-third of those infected are in the US. In the country died 67,7 thousand people, thousands more 180,2 recovered. Outbreak of pneumonia COVID-19 caused by a new type of coronavirus, was first recorded in December 2019 in Wuhan. On 11 March, the who announced that the situation can be characterized as a pandemic.
