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- Confirmed cases 1 203 130
- Deaths 64 744
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- Trump issues stark warning, pledges to deploy military to hard-hit states as coronavirus infections surpasses 300,000.
- Greece quarantines second camp after coronavirus case confirmed
- New Zealand virus cases pass 1,000
- Sri Lanka releases 2,961 prisoners
- New York gets 1,000 ventilators from China
- The US government has begun advising people to wear masks if they go outside, pointing to research that shows the coronavirus could be spread just by breathing.
- Thailand reports 102 new cases, 3 more deaths
- Italy’s daily death toll drops to lowest in two weeks
Trump issues stark warning, pledges to deploy military to hard-hit states as coronavirus infections surpasses 300,000.
President Donald Trump has warned the United States is entering what could be its “toughest” week yet as the number of coronavirus cases in the country surged past 300,000.
There will be a lot of death, unfortunately,” he told reporters at the White House on Saturday. “This will be probably the toughest week – between this week and next week.”
More than 8,000 people have died in the US from the respiratory illness caused by the new coronavirus, known as COVID-19. The state of New York, where the virus has killed more than 3,500 people, reported another record in its daily toll – 630 deaths – on Saturday.
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