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cdc website, Pressed on that claim, given concerns that China has been providing inaccurate numbers, Pence responded, Well, we had CDC [Centers for Disease Control and Prevention] officials that were just in China a few short weeks ago, and they informed we that they were able to look at the raw data, and from their initial look, it did line up with much of the data that we were receiving. We'll continue to ask the hard questions; we'll continue to call on China to be even more transparent than they've been.
cdc website - Pence added: I think the president's decision to suspend all travel out of China and establish a quarantine for Americans who are returning here should tell you everything you need to know about our overall concern [about] what's happening in China. CORONAVIRUS FEARS SEND FACE MASK PRICES SKYROCKETING, PROMPT WARNINGS ABOUT PRICE GOUGING The vice president emphasized the possible coronavirus threat from other nations, and touted the administration's fresh new travel restrictions, which state that foreign nationals who have visited Iran in the last 14 days will not be allowed back in the United States -- and that in portions of Italy and South Korea, a Level 4 do not travel advisory was established.
cdc website, An Italian army soldier blocks off a road leading to the village of Vo'Euganeo, in Italy's northern Veneto region, on Friday, Feb. 28, 2020. Vo'Euganeo is the epicenter of the Veneto cluster of the new virus. (Claudio Fulan/LaPresse via AP) Specifically, the administration's advisory Sunday cited quarantines set up in 10 Lombard towns and one in Veneto, with a combined population of 50,000 people, as well as ‘’the level of community transmission of the virus.'' It followed an earlier warning late Friday to avoid non-essential travel to all of Italy, where more than 1,100 cases were confirmed through Saturday along with 29 deaths.
cdc website - Tourism officials have cited the previous warning covering all of Italy as potentially calamitous to the industry, which represents 13 percent of gross domestic product in a country famed for its world-class museums, archaeological sites, art cities and natural beauty. SURGEON GENERAL SAYS YOU DON'T NEED MASKS IF YOU DON'T HAVE VIRUS A similar do-not-travel warning has gone out for Daegu, South Korea, with caution to reconsider any travel to the entire country. On Sunday, the coronavirus dramatically shut down France's Louvre Museum, with workers who guard its famous trove of artworks fearful of being contaminated by the museum's flow of visitors from around the world.
cdc website - People walk by the Louvre museum, in Paris, France, Sunday, March 1, 2020. The spreading coronavirus epidemic shut down France's Louvre Museum on Sunday, with workers who guard its trove of artworks fearful of being contaminated by the museum's flow of visitors from around the world. (AP Photo/Rafael Yaghobzadeh) “We are very worried because we have visitors from everywhere,” said Andre Sacristin, a Louvre employee and union representative for its staffers, calling the risk very, very, very great.