President Donald Trump on Saturday evening backed off a daylong threat to lock down NYC and the tri-state area — a proposal that had thrown three governors for a loop.
“A quarantine won’t be needed,” Trump wrote in a collection of tweets Saturday evening, reasoning {that a} journey advisory would suffice.
“On the advice of the White House Corona Virus Task Force, and upon session with the Governor’s (sic) of New York, New Jersey and Connecticut, I’ve requested the [Centers for Disease Control and Prevention] to concern a powerful Travel Advisory, to be administered by the Governors, in session with the Federal Government,” Trump tweeted.
Trump had advised reporters exterior the White House earlier Saturday that he was contemplating a regional lockdown to cease the unfold of the illness, to the dismay of the tri-state’s governors.
New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy stated he and Trump spoke only a day earlier than, on Friday, and the concept wasn’t introduced up.
Gov. Andrew Cuomo stated he wouldn’t even know the way such a lockdown could be instituted.
“I don’t know the way that may very well be legally enforceable and from a medical level of view don’t know what you’d be carrying out, however I can inform you I don’t even just like the sound of it,” he advised reporters Saturday..
He appeared on CNN later, the place he likened the idea to beginning a “Civil War,” and referred to as it “preposterous.”
New York is the epicenter of the nation’s Corona Virus outbreak, with greater than 52,400 reported instances as of Saturday evening. Most of the sufferers, greater than 30,700, are situated in New York City.
New Jersey has the second-most instances within the nation, reporting greater than 11,000 optimistic exams.
