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All across Europe economies are in far deeper contractions than the U.S.

Democrat presidential nominee and former Vice President Joe Biden made no mention of continuing existing travel bans from China, Europe, and Brazil to the United States to prevent the spread of the Chinese coronavirus from overseas. 

Chinese officials are stepping up their efforts to blame the coronavirus outbreak in Beijing on a new mutant strain of the disease imported from Europe.

The European Commission has vowed to tackle the problem of the European Union’s demographic decline as 2019 saw the second year in a row where deaths outnumbered births in the political bloc.

The Vatican has decried the rise in anti-Christian hate crimes throughout Europe as well as the discriminatory treatment suffered by Christians during the coronavirus lockdowns.

The president of Albania has decried the “mafia” government of his own country after the state apparently launched a midnight demolition raid against the National Theatre building, police having first rounded up demonstrators.

European cities have begun lifting lockdown restrictions for business after months of quarantine, but scenes taking place across the continent depict a “new normal” that would have seemed alien to people in pre-coronavirus Europe.

New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D) on Monday referred to the Chinese-origin coronavirus as the “European virus” during his daily press conference on his state’s efforts to combat the ongoing pandemic.

European grandparents were able to embrace their grandchildren for the first time in weeks as countries across the continent begin to lift lockdown measures. 

Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan on Monday called upon wealthy nations to finance a more extensive rescue package for developing economies in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic.

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D) promoted tourism to San Franciso, California’s Chinatown and was moving forward with legislation to prevent presidents from issuing travel bans while President Trump implemented a travel ban from China to stop the spread of the Chinese coronavirus. 

New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D) said in a Friday press briefing that the deadly novel coronavirus came to New York state from Europe, instead of China, citing recently-published research.

Italy documented three days of the lowest number of coronavirus-related deaths in the country since March 19 this week. New confirmed cases of the disease are also on a decline.

Medical experts wanted to recommend travel bans for nations to help stop the spread of the Chinese coronavirus in the early days of the pandemic. World Health Organization (WHO) bureaucrats stopped them from making those recommendations.

President Trump says the World Health Organization’s (WHO) attacks on travel bans during the Chinese coronavirus crisis “put political correctness above life-saving measures.” During a press briefing where he announced a halt to American taxpayers’ funding of the WHO, Trump

Almost 8-in-10 Americans want immigration to the United States paused during the Chinese coronavirus crisis as unemployment reaches record levels, a new poll reveals.

A scientist on the British government’s committee that advises on coronavirus said the UK could be the worst-hit country out of any in Europe.

Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte said this week that his country’s response to the Chinese coronavirus “has not been perfect” but that Italy’s model is nonetheless being used by other nations that are trying to combat the Wuhan virus.

PM Conte floated the idea of all of Europe doing “things on their own” due to the EU’s poor response to the China coronavirus.

Researchers at Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai say the large-scale Chinese coronavirus outbreak in New York City, New York, “predominately” came from Europe.

Italy’s overall death toll from the Chinese coronavirus exceeded 16,000 on Monday, as another 636 died from the disease in 24 hours.

Nearly 40,000 people have landed in the United States from China on almost 280 flights since President Donald Trump’s February 2 travel ban on mainland China, a collection of travel data reveals.

Italy’s overall death toll from the Chinese coronavirus exceeded 15,000 on Saturday as another 681 people have died from the disease in just the last 24 hours – an increase of 4.6 percent in one day.

“We think Italy may be the most comparable area to the United States at this point,” Vice President Mike Pence told reporters on Wednesday. As Italy’s coronavirus death toll continues to grow many are asking: Why did the virus that originated in Wuhan, China, strike Italy so hard? And why do our leaders think we may become like Italy?

In the last 24 hours, 766 people have died in Italy from the Chinese coronavirus, bringing the nation’s overall death toll to 14,681.

An Italian governor said he was called “racist” by his colleagues for wanting tests for travellers from China in early February.

In the last 24 hours, 727 people have died in Italy from the Chinese coronavirus, bringing the nation’s overall death toll to 13,155.

In the last 24 hours, 837 people have died in Italy from the Chinese coronavirus, bringing the nation’s overall death toll to 12,428.

President Trump is eyeing additional travel bans to stop the spread of the Chinese coronavirus in the United States.

In the last 24 hours, 812 people have died in Italy from the Chinese coronavirus, bringing the nation’s overall death toll to 11,591 as of Monday — an increase of 7.5 per cent in one day.

A 101-year-old Italian man born during the Spanish flu pandemic left the hospital on Thursday after beating the Chinese coronavirus.

President Trump’s travel bans on China, Iran, Europe – as well as closures at the southern and northern borders – are the most popular policy initiatives the White House has enacted to fighting the Chinese coronavirus, a new survey reveals.

In the last 24 hours, 712 people have died in Italy from the Chinese coronavirus, bringing the nation’s overall death toll from the virus to 8,215 on Thursday, up from 7,503 on Wednesday — an increase of 8.8 percent in one day, a percentage that has actually slightly declined from the day earlier.

In the last 24 hours, 683 people have died in Italy from the Chinese coronavirus, bringing the nation’s overall death toll from the virus to 7,503 on Wednesday, up from 6,820 on Tuesday — an increase of 10 percent in one day.

In the last 24 hours, 743 people have died in Italy from the Chinese coronavirus, bringing the nation’s total death toll from the virus to 6,820 on Tuesday, up from 6,077 on Monday — an increase of 12.2 percent in one day.

Healthcare workers comprise roughly one in ten of the confirmed coronavirus cases in Italy, according to data provided by the nation’s public health institution, which reveals that 4,824 healthcare professionals have become infected with the disease since the beginning of Italy’s crisis with the virus that originated in Wuhan, China.