Trump bans travel from Europe, UK is exempted from the ban
- ban to come into force from Friday midnight
More:
- recommends nursing homes suspend all unnecessary visits
- older people should avoid non-essential travel
- will take action to provide financial relief to workers who are ill, quarantined of caring for others due to virus
- Small Business Administration to provide capital and liquidity to affected firms, low interst loans
- treasury to defer some tax payments
- will provide 200bn USD in additional liquidity
- this is not a financial crisis
- calls on Congress for immediate payroll tax relief
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So, nothing announced on actual health measures (testing etc.), just the eco measures