Coronavirus: President Donald Trump is expected to declare a national emergency on Friday to provide more money to fight the Covid-19 pandemic that has killed 41 people in the United States.
Washington - As the coronavirus outbreak tore deeper into the fabric of American public life, President Donald Trump was expected to declare a national emergency on Friday to provide more money to fight a pandemic that has killed 41 people in the United States.
"This is a difficult decision, but necessary, as we try to slow the spread of the virus," Superintendent Austin Beutner said in a statement. Ryan Starbuck, who was looking forward to running his seventh Boston Marathon next month, said the postponement would upend his usual schedule of two to three marathons a year.
But Republicans were waiting for the president to give his approval and had yet to commit. Without their support, the measure could stall in the Senate. "I came here to get some of the things she couldn't," he said while leaving the store with a single bag of groceries. "It was insanity,” he said about his local grocery stores. “We have a newborn, so it’s tricky.”The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Friday reported 1,678 U.S. cases of coronavirus, an increase of 414 from its previous count, and said that the number of deaths had risen by five to 41.
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