Spain imposes near total lockdown to fight virus

Updated 15 Mar, 2020

Meanwhile, US President Donald Trump accused the Federal Reserve on Saturday of not being "aggressive" enough to counteract the coronavirus-linked economic slump, while insisting he had no plans to replace the bank's president, frequently a target of his criticism.

"Other boards and other countries and people representing those countries are taking a much more aggressive action than our Fed," Trump said during a White House press conference. "And their equivalent of the Fed rate is lower, in some cases by two points. That's a lot," the president said. "We have the currency, the power... We shouldn't have a Fed rate that's higher than our competitor nations."

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