据美国中文网报道，受新冠病毒检测影响，美国芝加哥奥黑尔国际机场当地时间14日晚间，乘客过海关时大排长龙，引发关注。除芝加哥外，达拉斯、华盛顿特区和纽约的指定机场也出现同样情况，不少人指责未做好应对大批人员回美的通关和卫生检疫计划。总统特朗普15日称，美国“正对机场进行非常精确的医学检查”。
据媒体此前报道，美国约翰斯·霍普金斯大学发布的实时统计数据显示，截至美东时间15日14时20分，美国新冠肺炎确诊病例累计达到3244例，死亡62例。
据报道，在14日的简报会上，白宫暗示，可能会限制美国国内旅行。特朗普表示：“如果不需要旅行，我不会这么做。我们希望这件事结束。我们不希望很多人被感染。”
但是，国家过敏和传染病研究所主任福契(Anthony Fauci)15日表示，这一概念“并未得到认真讨论”。他说：“现在或不久的将来，我都不会看到这种情况。但是请记住，我们对于保持美国公众健康所需采取的一切措施持开放态度”。
报道称，特朗普已宣布，自13日起，来自26个欧洲国家的外国公民将面临进入美国的限制，而爱尔兰和英国将在当地时间16日起列入名单。
这一禁令在最初宣布后，于欧洲机场引发混乱。并在之后，将混乱延续到了美国。旅欧的美国公民和永久居民返美时，必须由联邦政府指定的地点入境，并接受卫生检查，短时间出现的大量客流量，给机场后勤带来了不小的压力。
有从伦敦经巴黎返回美国的乘客表示，他在美国芝加哥机场排队入境和接受检疫时，等候了至少6个小时。
报道指出，海关和边境保护局代理局长摩根(Mark Morgan)在一份声明中强调，乘客的安全与健康是重中之重，海关与边境保护局已经意识到排队时间长，已经在解决某些机场延误方面取得了成功。
他在当地时间15日晚些时候的声明中说：“昨天在某些地方经历的等待时间，是不可接受的。”他说，该机构的资源已经“捉襟见肘”，但海关和边境保护局仍必须履行其国家安全、禁毒和出境执法任务。
摩根表示：“不幸的是，在这种国家紧急状态下，将会有很多人受到困扰，旅客的入境时间增加。海关边防总署正在全天候工作，以尽量减少这些不便。”
Affected by the detection of new coronavirus, passengers at O'Hare International Airport in Chicago lined up at the Customs on the night of the 14th local time, causing concern, chinanews.com reported. In addition to Chicago, the same has happened at designated airports in Dallas, Washington, D.C., and New York, with many blaming the failure of customs clearance and health quarantine plans to deal with large numbers of people returning to the United States. President trump said Friday that the United States "is carrying out a very accurate medical examination of the airport.".
Novel coronavirus pneumonia confirmed that the United States had reached 3244 at 14:20 on the 15 th of the day, and 62 died, according to media reports. Johns Hopkins's University has released the real-time statistics.
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Infographic: President trump of the United States. Photo by Chen Meng, reporter of China News Agency
According to reports, at a briefing on the 14th, the White House hinted that it might restrict domestic travel in the United States. "If I don't need to travel, I won't," trump said. We hope it's over. We don't want a lot of people infected. "
However, Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of allergy and infectious diseases, said Friday that the concept "has not been seriously discussed.". "I will not see this now or in the near future," he said. But remember, we are open to all the steps we need to take to maintain public health in the United States. ".
Trump has announced that foreign citizens from 26 European countries will face restrictions on entering the United States from the 13th, while Ireland and the United Kingdom will be on the list from the 16th local time, the report said.
The ban, initially announced, caused chaos at European airports. And after that, chaos continued to the United States. When U.S. citizens and permanent residents in Europe return to the United States, they must enter the country at a place designated by the federal government and undergo health inspection. The large amount of passenger flow in a short period of time has brought a lot of pressure to the airport logistics.
Passengers returning from London to the United States via Paris said he had waited at least six hours in line for entry and quarantine at Chicago airport.
According to the report, mark Morgan, acting director of the customs and Border Protection Agency, stressed in a statement that the safety and health of passengers are the top priority, and that CBP has realized the long queue time and has been successful in solving some airport delays.
"The waiting time experienced yesterday in some places is unacceptable," he said in a statement later on the 15th local time He said the agency's resources were "stretched", but the customs and Border Protection Agency still had to carry out its national security, drug control and exit law enforcement tasks.
"Unfortunately, in this state of national emergency, there will be a lot of people suffering and more time for passengers to enter," Morgan said. The General Administration of customs and border protection is working around the clock to minimize these inconveniences. "
