COVID-19: Trump temporarily suspends immigration, as China confirms 11 new cases

The President of the United States of America, Donald Trump has informed that he plans to sign an executive order to temporarily suspend immigration “in light of the attack from an ‘Invisible Enemy’.

Trump gave the notice in a post on his official Twitter page on Monday as no fewer than 2.4 million people have been diagnosed with the virus and 170,000 reported dead thus far, according to figures provided by the Johns Hopkins University.

“In light of the attack from the Invisible Enemy, as well as the need to protect the jobs of our GREAT American Citizens, I will be signing an Executive Order to temporarily suspend immigration into the United States!” Trump wrote on Twitter.

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Meanwhile, China’s latest coronavirus update shows just 11 new confirmed cases on the mainland on April 20, with no new deaths according to the National Health Commission, which informed that four of the new cases were imported.

There were seven cases of local infection, including six in the northeastern border province of Heilongjiang and one in the southern province of Guangdong.

China also reported 37 new asymptomatic coronavirus cases on the mainland on April 20, compared with 49 a day earlier.

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