Donald Trump suspends travel from Europe to U.S. starting Friday

In a primetime address from the Oval Office, U.S. President Trump announced a series of measures to tackle the coronavirus pandemic including banning travel from Europe to the United States for 30 days starting on Friday at midnight. The ban would exclude the United Kingdom.

The swiftly mounting effort to contain the outbreak and financial fallout intensified on a grueling day as the number of confirmed cases of the infection topped 1,000 in the U.S. and the World Health Organization declared that the global crisis is now a pandemic. Communities nationwide canceled public events in the hopes of halting the spread of the infection.

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