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FILE PHOTO: Empty restaurant tables sit on a plaza on Pennsylvania Avenue in during the coronavirus outbreak in downtown Washington, U.S. March 31, 2020. REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst/File PhotoDonald Trump’s suggestion that injections of disinfectant could be used to combat the coronavirus have caused an overnight Twitter storm.
“Is there a way we can do something like that by injection, inside, or almost a cleaning?” he said. “It would be interesting to check that.” “I’m saying this sincerely,” he told reporters. “If Europe raises debt to loan to others, that won’t live up to the response we need.”The World Health Organization said it would announce a “landmark collaboration” on Friday to accelerate the research, development and production of safe, effective drugs, tests and vaccines for the coronavirus.
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