"Fed Plans Release Of Clean Cash As Virus Spreads"

From PYMNTS.com:

In the midst of the coronavirus pandemic, the Federal Reserve has plans to print new money that will not have come into contact with the virus, although this may not happen immediately, according to a report by CoinDesk.

The Fed doesn’t currently think that the virus will be worsened by the transmission and trading-hands of dollars, Joey Lee, spokesperson for the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia, said, pointing to recent Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) findings. Instead, the spread has happened more via personal contact, not by touching the same dollars.

Because of that, the Fed will not be recommending destroying banknotes from the worst infected areas, which the Peoples Bank of China did last month, taking all money that had been created in zones of high infection.

Lee said the Fed would be looking at the CDC recommendations going forward and keeping up with the ways the virus spreads. The Fed also has a contingency stock of new currency, which it always keeps on hand....MORE

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