U.N. Secretary-General Guterres says the coronavirus pandemic keeps unleashing “a tsunami of hate and xenophobia, scapegoating and scare-mongering.”
House probe finds U.S. efforts to screen travelers from Italy and South Korea were lax
The probe by the Subcommittee on Economic and Consumer Policy found the U.S. effectively outsourced the screenings to South Korea and Italy and resulted in"another opportunity the administration missed to limit the impact of coronavirus,” said committee chairman Raja Krishnamoorthi, D-Ill.involving the two countries on Feb. 29th, as both were dealing with escalating coronavirus cases.
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