US eyes aid for airlines; sees no domestic travel curbs for now

US treasury secretary Steven Mnuchin Sunday said he was in close touch with Congress about helping US airlines weather a massive downturn in business due to sweeping travel restrictions aimed at containing the coronavirus. Mnuchin said he was talking with house of representatives speaker Nancy Pelosi about measures this week to help airlines and other heavily affected industries. "We need to focus on the airline industry. This is an unprecedented situation," he told ABC. "The speaker and I are already in conversations about airlines, which (are) critical to us, hotels, cruise ships, more SBA lending, more liquidity, some type of stimulus," he added. Top US infectious diseases expert Anthony Fauci Sunday said he did not expect the US to restrict domestic travel in the near future. <br/>