(CNN)Here's an indisputable fact: President Donald Trump is as popular today as he has been since his first day in office.
In a new Gallup poll, 49% approve of the job Trump is doing as president while 45% disapprove, matching the highest his approval rating has ever been in Gallup surveys. A Monmouth University poll released on Monday showed Trump at 46% approval, again the best he has done in that poll in more than three years.
What accounts for Trump's rise? Simple: His response to the coronavirus crisis.
In the Gallup poll, 60% of Americans approve of the job Trump is doing in handling the crisis while 38% disapprove of how he has done. Six in 10 independents approve of how Trump has done on the coronavirus as do more than 1 in 4 (27%) of Democrats. In the Monmouth poll, 50% say Trump has done a good job with coronavirus while 45% said he has done a bad job.
The heightened approval for how Trump has managed this crisis --
particularly among independents and even Democrats -- is what is pushing up his overall approval numbers, which have been largely stagnant for years.
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Seems on the whole people feel he is doing a fairly decent job in trying circumstances. I don't think the uk has even put in place flight restrictions:
THE SUN: Traffic arrivals into the UK are around 100,000 every day - but this has fallen from half a million before the pandemic began.
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Several flights come into the UK every day from New York, Tehran, Rome and Beijing. "
But passengers showing symptoms of the infection are not allowed to board flights in most countries.
However, when they get to the UK there are no health or temperature checks.
They are asked to self isolate at home for 14 days but there is little that can be done to do enforce this.