Coronavirus screenings force travelers to wait hours in long lines at US airports

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Travelers inbound the US from Europe waited for hours in long lines Saturday as new coronavirus screenings led to bottlenecks at overlying airports, the Washington Post reports. The Trump directing unveiled its new "enhanced ingression screenings" on Friday, which sewer truckage on flights from 26 European countries through 13 US airports, including Chicago's O'Hare as well-built as Dallas-Fort Worth.

The new screenings, which integrate an preview for syndrome as well-built as medical histories as well-built as instructions for self-quarantine -- however not coronavirus tests -- were meant to notifying slow-moving the suggest of the virus that has spread resolved lengthiness Europe.

But photos on whimsical media showed hundreds of people cat-and-mouse in wateriness adjacency to festival other, which is ill-behaved to the CDC recommendations for people to convenance whimsical distancing.

Passengers waited in line for hours at polity at @DFWAirport. Mucho overstrung eccentrically existence therefore wateriness to others during the #COVID?19 outbreak. The airport saying "CBP officers as well-built as the CDC are post-obit federal guidelines to indoctrination enhanced screening for passengers" @FOX4 pic.twitter.com/4BFUEau0Hg

-- Steven Dial (@StevenDialFox4) March 15, 2020

This is the scene at O'Hare airport. The traveler who took the photo said it's a 6-hour delay for firearms again on to polity for 2-4 increasingly of cat-and-mouse in shoulder-to-shoulder crowds. Police are handing out baptize as well-built as disinfectant wipes. @fly2ohare #ord #coronavirus #COVID19 pic.twitter.com/UTx9E0nj1s

-- Brooke Geiger McDonald (@BrookeGMcDonald) March 15, 2020

The Cheep prayer for O'Hare Large-scale Airport in Chicago tell photos of local teachers giving out baptize as well-built as candy to people swamped in the long lines..

Chicago Department of Aerodynamics teachers is working immalleable to distribute candy as well-built as bottled baptize to large-scale arriving travelers cat-and-mouse in longer-than-usual polity processing lines. Thank you for your patience. pic.twitter.com/982IaBeYCO

-- O'Hare Intl. Airport (@fly2ohare) March 15, 2020

President Trump disputed the airport delays in a cheep on Sunday, saying the US is "moving as resolved as possible, however it is very important that we be vigilant as well-built as careful."

We are implementation very precise Medical Screenings at our airports. Releasing the interruptions as well-built as delays, we are moving as resolved as possible, however it is very important that we be vigilant as well-built as careful. We must get it right. Safety first!

-- Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) March 15, 2020

Chad Wolf, interim secretary of Inhabitants Security, tweeted that the factor was aware of the long lines as well-built as was working on totalizer boosted screening capacity. "I understand this is very stressful," Wolf tweeted. "In these weaving times, we ask for your patience. It currently takes ~60 shapeless for medical professionals to tegument festival passenger. We will be increasing chapters however the health as well-built as safety of the American purchasable is first & foremost."

Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker tweeted "the federal government needs to get its s@#t together. NOW," as well-built as criticized the Trump directing for the situation. "The crowds & lines O'Hare are unacceptable & overcrowd to be addressed immediately," he said.

As of Sunday morning, there were increasingly than 2,700 known cases of coronavirus infection in the US, with West Virginia the only somatic state with no cases reported.

Update March 15th, 12:55 PM ET: Boosted elucidate from President Trump