US President Donald Trump expressed his expectation that the epidemic would have passed and everybody would be able to return to work by Easter Sunday – Sunday 12th.

Texas Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick said on Fox News on March 23rd that “lots of” grandparents would be willing to die in order to save the economy for their grandchildren.

No one reached out to me and said, as a senior citizen, are you willing to take a chance on your survival in exchange for keeping the America that all America loves for your children and grandchildren? And if that’s the exchange, I’m all in,” Patrick said on air.

“I just think there are lots of grandparents out there in this country like me — I have six grandchildren — that’s what we all care about. … And I want to live smart and see through this, but I don’t want the whole country to be sacrificed. And that’s what I see,” he added.

US media reported that three sailors were tested on the aircraft carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt, and all three tests came out positive for COVID-19.

A spokesman for the US Navy told The Hill that, despite infections, Theodore Roosevelt will continue to fulfill its mission.

Earlier in March, the ship called at the port of Vietnam, where naval officers were allowed to go ashore. American media believe that it was there that sailors could become infected with the coronavirus.

Washington also decided to send assistance to Italy – in the form of packaging beds, mattresses, stretchers, IV poles, wheelchairs and linens.

All help is welcome, but these are also things that (at least publicly) Italy hasn’t said it has any need of. Ventilators are still in low supply, and it will keep being so.

Regardless, the US is attempting to do its part in assisting its allies.

In Ukraine, 750,000 tests were sent to Ukraine, from the Chinese province of Guangzhou.

A Ukrainian member of parliament, from President Volodymyr Zelensky’s political party, Alexander Dubinsky said that they didn’t make it to the Ukrainian regions.

The parliamentarian accused the PR staff of the “Servant of the People” party that they tried to shift the responsibility for the incident to the regional elites. He also stressed that the currently available tests will last only a few days.

“The media of the Presidential Office, obviously confident in their genius, began to rock the topic that now the entire regional elite – governors, police chiefs and SBU – will immediately grab tests that arrived at night for themselves and their friends,” Dubinsky wrote on his blog.

According to him, the president’s office even compiles relevant lists. Thus, the current government is trying to divert attention from the fact that “insignificantly few” tests arrived in Ukraine.

“That 750 thousand tests disappeared somewhere along the way, and that each region received only miserable crumbs from needs, which will last only a few days,” the Ukrainian MP explained.

Earlier, President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky recorded a video message to the citizens of the country, in which he promised the delivery of ten million tests from China, “which will be distributed across all corners of Ukraine.”

As in most other policy within Ukraine, this appears to be backfiring.