<span style="color: #222222;">US President Donald Trump has unveiled a three-phase plan to reopen country's economy, jolted by the COVID-19 pandemic. The new plan allows governors to gradually ease the crippling lockdown in their states.</span><br />'' <br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">Talking to media during his daily White House briefing on the coronavirus outbreak, Mr Trump said that America wants to be open and that a national shutdown is not a sustainable long-term solution.</span><br />'' <br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">Asserting that a prolonged lockdown, combined with a forced economic depression, would inflict an immense and wide-ranging toll on public health, Mr Trump told reporters that his administration is issuing new federal guidelines that will allow governors to take a phased approach to reopening their individual states.</span><br />'' <br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">For the first phase, the guidelines recommends that states see a downward trajectory for 14 days in the number of confirmed coronavirus cases before they move to lift stay-at-home orders and other restrictions.</span><br />'' <br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">The second phase include asking for all vulnerable individuals to shelter in place, encourage telework, and the common areas should remain closed or be physically distant.</span><br />'' <br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">The third phase is essentially returning to the new normal with continuing the good hygiene practices, continuing the respect for spaces between individuals.</span><br />''