Trump says US ‘very, very ready’ to handle coronavirus as outbreak grows

&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"wpcnt">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"wpa">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<span class&equals;"wpa-about">Advertisements<&sol;span>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"u top&lowbar;amp">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<amp-ad width&equals;"300" height&equals;"265"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; type&equals;"pubmine"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; data-siteid&equals;"111265417"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; data-section&equals;"2">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;amp-ad>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div><p>US President Donald Trump has said the country is &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;very&comma; very ready” to handle the coronavirus outbreak as a new case was confirmed in the country&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The American leader said he had put Vice President Mike Pence in charge of the domestic response to the virus known as Covid-19 which he insisted would not necessarily become a pandemic&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><&excl;--Ads1--><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;This will end&comma;” Mr Trump said of the outbreak at a White House news conference&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;You don’t want to see panic because there’s no reason to be panicked&period;”<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The US Centres for Disease Control and Prevention later announced a person in California had been confirmed to have the illness&comma; despite seemingly not having travelled abroad or been exposed to another person with Covid-19&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The latest infection takes the total number of infected in the US to 60 people&comma; most of whom were evacuated from outbreak zones&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>In Asia&comma; China and South Korea each reported hundreds more cases of the virus&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<blockquote><p>You don&&num;8217&semi;t want to see panic because there&&num;8217&semi;s no reason to be panicked<&sol;p><&sol;blockquote>&NewLine;<p>China reported 433 new cases&comma; mostly in Wuhan&comma; where the virus emerged in December&comma; bringing the country’s total to 78&comma;497 cases&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Beijing also said there had been 29 more deaths&comma; taking its toll to 2&comma;744&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>South Korea reported 334 more cases&comma; bringing its total to 1&comma;595&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Most were in the country’s fourth-biggest city&comma; Daegu&comma; where the outbreak has hit hardest&period; But there are signs the virus is spreading with dozens of cases in Seoul and South Korea’s second-largest city&comma; Busan&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Brazil has also confirmed its first case&comma; while numbers continue to climb in Europe and the Middle East&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><&excl;--Ads2--><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Global worries about the Covid-19 illness have been multiplying&comma; as the epidemic expanded geographically and for the first time caused more new cases outside China than inside the country&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<figure id&equals;"attachment&lowbar;150446" aria-describedby&equals;"caption-attachment-150446" style&equals;"width&colon; 600px" class&equals;"wp-caption aligncenter"><img src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;londonglossy&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2020&sol;02&sol;D07776B8-3101-4F04-B23C-AB63534F4C37&period;jpeg" alt&equals;"" width&equals;"600" height&equals;"461" class&equals;"size-full wp-image-150446" &sol;><figcaption id&equals;"caption-attachment-150446" class&equals;"wp-caption-text">Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus has expressed concern about increases in Covid-19 cases<&sol;figcaption><&sol;figure>&NewLine;<p>World Health Organisation director-general Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said&colon; &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;The sudden increases of cases in Italy&comma; the Islamic Republic of Iran and the Republic of Korea are deeply concerning&period;”<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>South Korea has followed China in expressing dismay at travel restrictions imposed by other countries&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>About 40 nations and regions so far have prohibited or restricted South Korean visitors&comma; according to Lee Lee Tae-ho&comma; Seoul’s second vice minister of foreign affairs&comma; who described such moves as excessive and said his government has been effectively utilising its &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;world-best quarantine capabilities”&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>But calls have grown inside South Korea for expanding its own entry ban&comma; which currently covers only visitors from China’s Hubei province&comma; where Wuhan is the capital&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><&excl;--Ads3--><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>China has put Wuhan and nearby cities on lockdown&comma; many airlines have reduced Chinese flights&comma; 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