美国新冠肺炎疫情进入新阶段_BEC初级作文

美国新冠肺炎疫情进入新阶段

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（8月2日）说，美国抗击新冠肺炎疫情已经进入“新阶段”，并敦促美国人外出佩戴口罩，遵守社交距离指南。

"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。”

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"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."

伯克斯说：“对于生活在农村地区的每个人来说，你都没有这种病毒的免疫力或保护能力。这就是为什么我们一直说，无论你住在美国的哪个地方，你都需要戴口罩，保持社交距离，做好个人卫生。”

The US has more than 4.6 million coronavirus cases and at least 154,449 deaths, the most of any country, according to data from the Johns Hopkins University.