Americans trust U.S. government to handle coronavirus outbreak, poll shows

FILE PHOTO: A woman wears a mask in Chinatown following the outbreak of the novel coronavirus, in Chicago, Illinois, U.S. January 30, 2020. REUTERS/Kamil Krzaczynski

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - More than three in four Americans say they are very confident or somewhat confident in the U.S. federal government's ability to handle a coronavirus outbreak, a Gallup poll has found, a higher level of confidence than in previous health scares.

Gallup said the results were from a Feb. 3 to Feb. 16 poll that began just days after the Trump administration announced it would suspend entry of foreign nationals who had been to China in the previous two weeks.