Trump orders US flags lowered to half-staff for 3 days to honour Covid-19 victims

President Donald Trump on Thursday ordered US flags to be lowered to half-staff for 3 days in honour of Americans who’ve died from coronavirus.

The announcement got here because the US COVID-19 demise toll approaches the 100,000 mark, and follows calls by Democrats to decrease the flag when it reaches that grim milestone.

“I will be lowering the flags on all Federal Buildings and National Monuments to half-staff over the next three days in memory of the Americans we have lost to the CoronaVirus,” Trump tweeted.

The Republican president added that flags would stay at half-staff on Monday for the nation’s Memorial Day, honoring those that have died whereas serving within the US army.

While US every day demise tolls are now not on a gentle incline, the losses are nonetheless mounting, with the whole depend within the US above 94,500 — by far the nation with probably the most deaths on the planet.

President Donald Trump on Thursday ordered US flags to be lowered to half-staff for 3 days in honor of Americans who’ve died from coronavirus.

The announcement got here because the US COVID-19 demise toll approaches the 100,000 mark, and follows calls by Democrats to decrease the flag when it reaches that grim milestone.

“I will be lowering the flags on all Federal Buildings and National Monuments to half-staff over the next three days in memory of the Americans we have lost to the CoronaVirus,” Trump tweeted.

The Republican president added that flags would stay at half-staff on Monday for the nation’s Memorial Day, honoring those that have died whereas serving within the US army.

While US every day demise tolls are now not on a gentle incline, the losses are nonetheless mounting, with the whole depend within the US above 94,500 — by far the nation with probably the most deaths on the planet.

The Memorial Day weekend will doubtless coincide with the nation reaching 100,000 COVID-19 deaths.

Earlier within the day, high Democrats stated flying the flags at half-staff upon reaching the 100,000 mark would mirror a “national expression of grief.”

“Our hearts are broken over this great loss,” House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and high Senate Democrat Chuck Schumer wrote in a letter to the president.

The pair stated it will be becoming to pay respects to victims of the disaster whereas honoring the nation’s army heroes.

The United States has averaged practically 1,300 coronavirus deaths per day this week.