Trump considers ban on flights between coronavirus hot spots
by Rob Crilly
| April 01, 2020 08:48 PM
President Trump announced that he is considering a plan to halt flights between coronavirus hot spots as more states issued orders to keep residents at home as they battle a pandemic that could kill almost a quarter of a million in the United States.
This week, he extended social distancing guidelines but, on Wednesday, said he was not ready to issue a national stay-at-home order.
The issue of air travel was raised earlier in the day by White House ally Sen. Lindsey Graham, who tweeted that flights were still operating from New York to places including Detroit and New Orleans.
“Does this make sense in terms of aggressive containment?†the South Carolina Republican asked.
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