Donald Trump says churches should be reopened by Easter Sunday, faces backlash

Christian leers in United States have criticised US President Donald Trump for saying he wants most places reopened and churches full by Easter Sunday. While country is struggling to combat consequences of lockdowns and US ecomy is facing downfall with high unemployment rate, US President is seen er to jumpstart businesses and get country back on track. As of March 26, US has reported at least 68,573 cases of COVID-19 and 1,036 fatalities and on March 25, but Trump expressed his wish to see “large sections of country” reopened by April 12.

As per reports, US President’s comments came despite warnings from White House coronavirus task force members, Anthony Fauci and Deborah Birx, with latter saying that she was “deeply concerned” about New York and its surrounding area. Moreover, recent comments me by US President were called “heights of hypocrisy” by pastor and activist, Rev William J Barber II. Rev Al Sharpton reportedly said that if Trump was going to use biblical langu, he “needs to kw whole easter story”. According to reports, Rev Laura Everett, a pastor and executive director of Massachusetts Council of Churches tweeted about her anger after Trump’s comments. 

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US can be ‘new epicentre’ of COVID-19

While Trump is urging that country should be functional within few weeks, World Health Organisation has said on March 25 that United States has potential to become new epicentre of dely coronavirus outbreak due to a “very large acceleration in infections” in country. While life in China, where COVID-19 h originated in December 2019 is slowly coming back to rmalcy, fatal COVID-19 has spre to over 198 countries.

crisis due to pandemic has prompted more goverrs to join states ordering all citizens to stay at home and practice social distancing. WHO spokesperson Margaret Harris has told reporters that over past 24 hours, 85 per cent of new cases worldwide were from Europe and US and out of those, at least 40 per cent were just from US. However, WHO spokesperson also lauded improvements me in country with more intensified testing among or efforts to isolate sick and trace ir immediate contacts exposed to fatal COVID-19.

When she was furr asked if US can become new epicentre, Harris replied that United Nations health ncy is w “seeing a very large acceleration in cases in US. So it does have that potential. We cant say that is case yet but it does have that potential”.

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