US was attacked, this is not a flu: Donald Trump on coronavirus

Struggling to get the economy back on track US President Donald Trump has claimed that his country US was attacked. "We were attacked. This was an attack. This wasn't just the flu by the way. Nobody has ever seen anything like this, 1917 was the last time," Trump told reporters at his daily White House news conference on Wednesday. The reaction was to a question about the growing US national debt as a result of the multi-trillion dollars stimulus packages that his administration has come up with to help people and businesses in distress as a direct fallout of the pandemic.

"We have no choice. Do we have a choice? I'm always concerned about everything. We had to fix this problem," he said."We had the greatest economy in the history of the world... Better than China, better than any place," he said. "We built it in the last three years and then one day, they came and they said you have to close it. Now, we're going to open it again and we're going to be just as strong or stronger but you have to spend some money to get it back open," he said. 

Trump said that his administration is working closely with governors to ensure that they have the testing infrastructure in place to reduce further spread of the virus. The administration so far has directed more than USD 7 billion in federal funding to support the development of treatments, diagnostics, and therapies. More than 1600 locations across the country have signed up to administer convalescent plasma to patients, infusing them with antibodies of those who have recovered, he added. Meanwhile, terming the coronavirus outbreak as an “attack” comes as President Donald Trump has been constantly blaming China and the World Health Organisation for being responsible for the pandemic.