President Trump’s travel bans on China and Iran have been critically effective in ensuring that Chinese nationals, Iranian nationals, and recent foreign travelers to each of the two countries are not allowed into the interior of the United States in the midst of the coronavirus pandemic.
Health Cabinet Secretary Mutahi Kagwe confirmed on Friday that a woman had tested positive for Chinese coronavirus in the country, the first to do so since the outbreak began in Wuhan, China, late last year.
An article in China’s state-run Xinhua news service last week threatened to impose restrictions on medical exports so the United States will be “plunged into the mighty sea of coronavirus.”
The World Health Organization (WHO) declared on Friday that Europe has become the “epicenter” of the Chinese coronavirus pandemic, “with more reported cases and deaths than the rest of the world combined, apart from China.”
The Chinese Communist Party published a farcical “Record of Human Rights Violations in the United States” on Friday — essentially a schoolyard-taunt level response to the U.S. State Department’s annual report on human rights, released on March 11 — that strove to paint China’s critics as “white supremacists” and denounce their very existence as a human rights violation.
The South China Morning Post (SCMP) on Friday obtained data from the Chinese government that pinpointed the first clear case of the Wuhan coronavirus occuring on November 17, 2019. The Wuhan medical community began suspecting it had an epidemic on its hands in late December, but was suppressed by Communist Party officials who wished to conceal the crisis for as long as possible.
Thursday’s allegations from the Chinese Foreign Ministry that the Wuhan coronavirus is a biological weapon created by the U.S. military were not a fluke or an example of a rogue spokesman running his mouth. Foreign Ministry mouthpiece Zhao Lijian doubled down with more allegations on Friday, signaling a major effort by the Chinese Communist Party to gaslight the entire world and avoid responsibility for the global pandemic unleashed by the Chinese government.
Gen. Robert Abrams said Friday that trends in South Korea “are trending downward and looking good” in terms of the spread of coronavirus.
According to a recent report, the founder of ByteDance, the Chinese company behind popular social media app TikTok, has told employees that the company will be focusing on global expansion in the coming years.
Peter Wehner, a member of the small “Never Trump” faction, declared Friday in The Atlantic that “The Trump Presidency is Over” because of coronavirus.
Tech giant Apple has reportedly opened its retail stores in China once again after shutting them down last month due to the Wuhan coronavirus outbreak.
Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei ordered Iran’s military on Friday to expand its role in fighting the Chinese coronavirus outbreak in the country “due to the increased likelihood of the coronavirus being a biological attack.”
The FDA has approved emergency authorization of a coronavirus test developed by the Swiss diagnostic developer Roche.
Dr. Nicole Saphier told Breitbart News Daily on Friday morning that the reason the U.S. had rejected coronavirus test kits from abroad is that they had a 48% false negative rate, meaning sick people would believe, falsely, they were fine.
The timeline of the two developments — impeachment and coronavirus — is shocking, and reveals the true cost of hyper-partisanship.
During an interview with Fox News Channel’s Sean Hannity on Thursday, Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR) warned against trusting former Vice President Joe Biden, a candidate for the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination, to handle U.S. policy with regards to China, especially in the midst of a coronavirus threat that emerged from the Asian communist nation.
Democrats continue to push “globalist” policies amid a worldwide coronavirus outbreak, noted Reps. Andy Biggs (R-AZ) and Scott Perry (R-PA).
Former Vice President Joe Biden’s plan to combat the coronavirus in the United States does not include a single travel ban on any foreign country and revamps welfare-dependent legal immigration to the U.S. that President Trump’s administration has sought to end.
Former Vice President Joe Biden’s plan to combat the Wuhan, China-originated coronavirus does not mention China or the city of Wuhan.
“This is not just about public health and safety. It’s about our very national defense,” Navarro told reporters on Wednesday.
A member of the Shincheonji Church of Jesus committed suicide on Wednesday, police confirmed, after arguing with her husband about membership in the church – widely blamed for bringing the Chinese coronavirus to South Korea.
Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, says President Trump’s travel ban on Europe will efficiently reduce the coronavirus outbreak in the United States.
President Trump says a domestic travel ban within the United States is “a possibility” to fight the spread of the coronavirus from Wuhan, China.
Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) said during a hearing on Thursday that China’s dominance in the pharmaceutical and other medical sectors has “critically endangered” both the U.S. healthcare system and the economy.
Chinese Foreign Ministry Information Department spokesman Lijan Zhao on Thursday pushed the most aggressive form to date of the Chinese Communist Party’s coronavirus conspiracy theories, openly suggesting the virus was a weapon devised by the U.S. military and deployed in Wuhan, the Chinese city where the epidemic began.
The Communist Party of Cuba confirmed its first three cases of Chinese coronavirus on Thursday, all Italian tourists from Lombardy, the nation’s most severely affected region.
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) called for authority over coronavirus to be handed to an emergency bipartisan group of experts and to Congress rather than President Trump.
An article published Thursday on the website of the government of Hubei, the Chinese province at the heart of the coronavirus outbreak, claimed that the virus could theoretically damage male fertility. The article was removed without explanation a few hours later.
Members of the Congressional-Executive Commission on China (CECC) introduced a bipartisan bill to ban all imports from western Xinjiang, China, on Wednesday, asserting it is impossible to keep items manufactured by Muslim slaves out of America otherwise.
Two senior district government officials in Wuhan, the Chinese city at the center of the coronavirus outbreak, were fired on Wednesday after they used a garbage truck to deliver 1,000 portions of plastic-wrapped pork to a community in their district. Outraged residents flooded social media with ugly photos of the dump truck tipping its back end and depositing a pile of bagged meat onto a plastic sheet.
The coronavirus outbreak is a “moment of reckoning” for the United States in reevaluating its approach towards China, said Sen. Tom Cotton.
Taiwan’s remarkably low number of coronavirus infections – less than 50 in total, despite the island’s proximity to the outbreak area and extensive travel and commerce with China – has been credited to swift and effective action when the epidemic began, starting with a firm travel ban on China and the semi-autonomous territories of Hong Kong and Macau.
The Chinese Communist Party announced that the Wuhan coronavirus outbreak had begun to wane in its province of origin, Hubei, and planned to lift some lockdown restrictions on Wednesday, but backed down from that announcement nearly immediately.
The president banned China travel ban on Jan. 31, 40 days before the World Health Organization declared coronavirus a “pandemic.”
Each month, the Vatican releases a slickly produced Papal Prayer Intention video. In the March “Pope’s Video,” Francis addresses Catholicism in China.
Thursday on Fox News, Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) urged viewers to take into account the threat the United States faces from China exposed by the outbreak of the coronavirus.
Senators Josh Hawley (R-MO) and Sen. Rick Scott (R-FL) introduced a bill this week aiming to ban federal employees from using the Chinese-owned social media app TikTok on their government-issued phones.
We cannot know when the outbreak will end, but coronavirus is already changing politics as we know it.
President Trump offered a lifeline to the United Kingdom by exempting it from an anti-coronavirus ban on travel from Europe, but Boris Johnson’s government has thrown it back in his face, claiming the restrictions won’t work and complaining about their economic impact.
“Smart action today will prevent the spread of the virus tomorrow,” President Donald Trump said in his March 11 Oval Office address to the nation on the Chinese coronavirus epidemic.
