The U.S. president gave his assessment during a roundtable event at the National Institutes of Health on Tuesday.
President Donald Trump on Tuesday said his administration likely would not try to close the southern U.S. border in a bid to contain the spread of the coronavirus, days after indicating that could be a possibility.
"We're not looking at that very strongly," Trump told reporters during a roundtable event at the National Institutes of Health Vaccine Research Center regarding the spread of the virus, which causes a disease known as COVID-19. "We haven't seen any great evidence of that area as a problem."
Trump turned to Anthony Fauci, director of NIH's National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases and one of the most visible faces of the administration's response to the spread of the virus, who was sitting next to the president at the roundtable and appeared to agree with his assessment.
"We're not looking at that very strongly," Trump told reporters during a roundtable event at the National Institutes of Health Vaccine Research Center regarding the spread of the virus, which causes a disease known as COVID-19. "We haven't seen any great evidence of that area as a problem."
Trump turned to Anthony Fauci, director of NIH's National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases and one of the most visible faces of the administration's response to the spread of the virus, who was sitting next to the president at the roundtable and appeared to agree with his assessment.