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Trump suspends travel from Europe for 30 days in response to coronavirus outbreak

Trump said the U.S. would suspend travel from Europe for 30 days, a dramatic escalation of the federal government’s response to the coronavirus outbreak.
President Trump speaks in an address to the nation from the Oval Office about the coronavirus Wednesday.

WASHINGTON — President Trump on Wednesday said the United States would suspend travel from Europe for 30 days, a dramatic escalation of the federal government’s response to the coronavirus outbreak.

The measures come the same day that the World Health Organization declared the outbreak a global pandemic. Already, U.S. health officials have recorded over 1,000 cases of the novel coronavirus and the respiratory disease it causes, known as Covid-19. Worldwide cases exceed

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