Coronavirus: Trump hopes US will shake off pandemic by Easter
Trump on goal to reopen US by Easter: It's 'a beautiful timeline'
His optimistic tone came as the World Health Organization warned the US could become the pandemic's global epicentre.Globally there have been more than 420,000 cases confirmed and approaching 19,000 deaths.On Tuesday, he told Fox News he hoped the country could get back to normal by Easter, which is on 12 April.
The president said:"You're going to lose people. You're going to have suicides by the thousands. You're going to have all sorts of things happen. You're going to have instability."Celebrating a birthday party by video chat Dr Deborah Birx, of the White House coronavirus taskforce, said on Tuesday the New York City metro area is the source of 60% of all new cases in the US.The New York Governor Andrew Cuomo: The city 'is a test case'New York Governor Andrew Cuomo, a Democrat, told another news conference on Tuesday:"The [infection] forecaster said to me, 'We were looking at a freight train coming across the country.
New York currently has 7,000 medical ventilators - machines used to keep patients breathing - but needs 30,000, the governor said.On Tuesday afternoon, Donald Trump sat in the verdant White House grounds for a Fox News"virtual town hall" and said he hoped to get US businesses reopened by Easter, in just over two weeks.A few hours earlier, Governor Cuomo held a much more sombre press conference at the Javits Center in Manhattan.
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