Trump authorizes $ 8.3 billion spending to fight coronavirus in U.S.

An emergency package from the United States Congress that foresees spending of 8.3 billion dollars to contain the advance of the new coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2) was sanctioned by the American President, Donald Trump , this Friday, 6. The The government previously planned to move only 2.5 billion dollars (11 billion reais) to fight the epidemic, but it was severely criticized by the Democratic bench in Congress and changed its position.

At least 250 people are infected and 14 died in the country, according to the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). In addition to the assistance of 2 billion dollars (9 billion reais) to the federal agency, the package includes the investment of 3 billion dollars (14 billion reais) in research for the production of a vaccine. States will receive non-refundable funds to prevent and combat the epidemic.

Although 22 states out of a total of 50 have confirmed cases, the epidemic is concentrated on the west coast - the states of Washington and California recorded at least 75 and 66 cases, respectively.

Among the 14 deaths from the new coronavirus on American soil accounted for by the CDC, 13 occurred in the same hospital in Seattle, Washington's largest city.

The California government decreed a state of emergency on Thursday 5 and, on the same day, quarantined a cruise ship , with more than 3,500 people on board and heading for Hawaii, after a former passenger died of Covid-19 , the disease caused by the coronavirus. Across the country, in the state of New York, 33 patients with the disease were registered, and the state government isolated about 4,000 people under suspicion.