Trump approves California’s major disaster declaration over coronavirus pandemic

by Jonathan Adams
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The move frees federal funds to help with mass care and emergency assistance, crisis counselling, disaster case management, disaster unemployment assistance and disaster legal services

President Donald Trump on Sunday approved a Major Disaster Declaration to assist in California’s COVID-19 preparedness and emergency response efforts. The move frees federal funds to help with mass care and emergency assistance, crisis counselling, disaster case management, disaster unemployment assistance, disaster legal services and disaster supplemental nutrition assistance.

Federal funding is also available to tribal and eligible local governments and certain private nonprofit organizations on a cost-sharing basis for emergency protective measures, the Federal Emergency Management Agency said.

Officials did not immediately say how much money may be made available under the declaration.

Unfortunately, California has been disproportionately impacted by COVID-19, Gov. Gavin Newsom wrote in a letter to Trump on Sunday requesting the declaration. Besides California being home to nearly 40 million people, which itself poses significant logistical issues few other states face, California partnered with the federal government in several extremely complex and challenging repatriation missions, which strained California’s resources and impacted California’s healthcare.

Trump also announced that he ordered FEMA to ship mobile hospital centres to California, Washington and New York.

California is one of the hardest-hit states, with more than 1,600 confirmed cases and 30 deaths as of Sunday, according to a tally by Johns Hopkins University. The California Department of Health’s latest statistics show 1,468 cases and 27 deaths.

With the rapid-fire of the coronavirus bad news, coupled with the policymakers’ reaction, the trade sentiment remains heavy amid the US Senate’s failure to pass the much-awaited stimulus. That said, the US stock futures earlier dropped to the “limit down” levels, currently near 4.0% down, while the 10-year treasury yields drop 12 basis points to 0.815% by the press time.

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