Growing Coronavirus threatens United States borders with stricter security measures

March 14, 2020 por Isolda Barrera

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Everyone is rushing to stores like Walmart, Target, HEB, and drugstores to be able to buy wholesale things like face shields, antibacterial sprays, and disinfecting wipes, plus food and household supplies. People have begun to enter their own quarantines for fear of contagion.

Creating panic at the news, it is not the only city that is going through the same situation, several cities in the United States have already confirmed cases of Coronavirus that are under treatment, as well as several cases registered at the border.

What causes the question: What awaits us at the border? When we are the entry and exit of millions of people every day. How can there be more strict control now, in the face of the threats of a pandemic? Questions that leave many with the fear of the border to have a complete stoppage of activities at such great risk.

Although different media deny the danger of a closure, we must be realistic about the possibility if the situation were to empower. Right now it is mentioned that the northern border of the United States will be seeing changes in the coming days due to the increasing number of cases in Canada. The Prime Minister issued a warning to international travelers that all travel will be undergoing a stricter process of health security.

Flights are falling in price in the face of travel warnings that the World Health Organization has issued. Several tourist sites have been affected, places like Disney World, DisneyLand, DisneyLand Paris are under closure after Coronavirus alerts. Both Shanghai Disney and Hong Kong Disney closed at the end of January, although Shanghai started opening restaurants and shops on March 9 at Disneytown, Wishing Star Park and the Shanghai Disneyland Hotel. The Tokyo Disney Resort closed in late February, and the company announced on Wednesday that it will extend the closure of Tokyo Disneyland and Tokyo DisneySea until early April.

Through March 12, US coronavirus cases. UU. They were around 1,300.

President Trump already sent a presidential proclamation through the Department of Homeland Security, which says that the entry of most foreigners who have been in certain European countries is suspended at any time during the 14 days prior to their scheduled arrival in the U.S. These countries, known as the Schengen Area, include: Austria, Belgium, the Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Italy, Latvia, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, the Netherlands, Norway , Poland, Portugal, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden and Switzerland. This does not apply to lawful permanent residents, (generally) the immediate family members of US citizens and other persons identified in the proclamation.

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