President Donald Trump renewed his criticism of China on Wednesday over the global coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic and declared it has been worse for the United States than Pearl Harbor and the 9/11 attack.
As Germany revealed their plans for a return to near-normality, including a May 15 restart of the Bundesliga — the European Union forecast a historic recession on the virus-battered continent.
Nations from Asia followed Europe in reducing the lockdowns that have kept swathes of humanity inside the house for weeks and pounded economies, dropping millions without jobs.
The national bank of Brazil, the hardest-hit nation in Latin America, sliced its benchmark financing cost by 75% of a rating point, saying the economy required “remarkably solid” measures to battle the pandemic’s effect.
On the political front, Poland’s administering parties consented to defer the May 10 presidential political decision after it turned out to be clear it couldn’t be held by means of a postal vote as a result of the episode. Another date was not quickly clear.
Trump announced the result from the pandemic has hit the US harder than December 7, 1941, Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor or September 11, 2001, Al-Qaeda attacks on New York and Washington.
“This is really the worst attack we’ve ever had,” Trump told reporters. “This is worse than Pearl Harbor. This is worse than the World Trade Center” he added.
