U.S. President Donald Trump called off a visit to the Centres for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta.
U.S. President Donald Trump called off a visit to the Centres for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta on Friday, saying he did not want to "interfere" as the agency races to stem the coronavirus that has infected more than 100 000 people globally.
The death toll from the respiratory illness rose to 14 in the United States on Friday, according to public health data compiled by the Johns Hopkins Center for Systems Science and Engineering. "This is a critical moment in the growing outbreak of Covid-19 in King County," the county said in a statement on Thursday. "All King County residents should follow public health recommendations. Together, we may potentially impact the spread of the disease in our community."
Anthony Fauci, the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, earlier acknowledged missteps by the administration in failing to get coronavirus test kits out quickly, but said the overall response was going well. The virus spread to four more U.S. states on Thursday - Colorado, Maryland, Tennessee and Texas - and the number of cases in New York doubled to 22, eight of which were connected to a Manhattan lawyer who lives in Westchester County, north of the city.
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