白宫专家：美国新冠肺炎疫情进入“新阶段”_时事

白宫专家：美国新冠肺炎疫情进入“新阶段”

白宫冠状病毒应对工作小组协调员德博拉·伯克斯8月2日表示，全美新冠疫情进入“新阶段”，病毒传播范围比疫情早期更广泛。她敦促美国人外出佩戴口罩，遵守防疫指南。美国疾控中心的一项最新预测显示，未来三周可能有近2万名美国人死于新冠肺炎。

白宫专家：美国新冠肺炎疫情进入“新阶段”1 A nurse wearing personal protective equipment watches an ambulance driving away outside of Elmhurst Hospital during the ongoing outbreak of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in the Queens borough of New York, US, April 20, 2020. [Photo/Agencies]

Dr. Deborah Birx, the White House coronavirus task force coordinator, said on Sunday that the US is “in a new phase” of battling against the coronavirus pandemic and urged Americans to wear masks and follow social distancing guidelines.

白宫冠状病毒应对工作组协调员德博拉·伯克斯博士上周日 “What we are seeing today is different from March and April. It is extraordinarily widespread ... it’s more widespread and it’s both rural and urban,” Birx said during an interview on CNN.

伯克斯在接受美国有线电视资讯网采访时说：“我们现在的情况与3月和4月时不同。感染的情况非常普遍，比之前更甚，无论是在农村还是城市。”

“To everybody who lives in a rural area, you are not immune or protected from this virus,” Birx said. “And that is why we keep saying, no matter where you live in America, you need to wear a mask and socially distance, do the personal hygiene pieces.”