Trump will meet with the head of the most affected by COVID 19 new York

WASHINGTON, 21 Feb – RIA Novosti. The US President Donald trump said he will meet Tuesday with the Governor of the most affected by COVID-19 state of new York Andrew Cuomo.

trump and Cuomo in the past, have repeatedly exchanged criticism. In particular, Cuomo criticized trump’s decision to recommend the removal of restrictions on the coronavirus. In turn, trump said that Cuomo asked the Federal government assistance, which is not needed. Cuomo says the worst was avoided thanks to measures of social distancing in the state.

In new York, was about one third of all cases of coronavirus in the United States — nearly 250 thousand, more than 14 thousand people have died.

the world health organization on 11 March announced the outbreak of a new coronavirus infection COVID-19 pandemic. According to the latest who data, there have been recorded more than 2.3 million cases of infection, over 157 thousand people died.

Current data on the situation of COVID-19 in Russia and the world presented on the portal stopmanager.of the Russian Federation.