WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump will on Tuesday unveil “very dramatic” measures to protect US businesses and workers from the coronavirus health crisis currently ravaging the economy.

At a press conference in the White House briefing room on Monday evening, the president said he would meet Congress on Tuesday in a bid to pass a temporary payroll tax cut and fund sick leave for hourly employees who are afraid of being unable to work due to the outbreak of COVID-19.

“We’re going to be talking about hourly wage earners getting help so that they can be in a position where they’re not going to ever miss a paycheck,” Trump said, flanked by officials from the government’s coronavirus task force.

“This was something that we were thrown into and we’re going to handle it and we have been handling it very well,” he added.

The president ignored questions from reporters about whether he had been tested for the virus after it was reported on Monday that he has been in contact with two GOP lawmakers who are now in self-quarantine.

The Trump administration is also considering creating loans for small businesses and is working with the airline and cruise ship industry which had been hard hit by the outbreak, he said.

So far, 26 Americans have died while another 707 people have been infected.

Vice President Mike Pence, who has been appointed the head of the government’s coronavirus task force, said he himself had not been tested for the COVID-19 virus.

Government officials sought to allay fears about the health crisis as US cases grow and the stock market slides and oil prices crash — the Dow Jones experiencing its biggest one-day plunge on record.

“The risk of contracting the coronavirus to the American public remains low,” Pence said, crediting the president’s travel ban earlier this year.