US Covid-19 cases pass 500, defiant Trump praises response
US President Donald Trump , alongside Secretary of Health and Human Services Alex Azar, signs the US$8.3 billion coronavirus supplemental funding bill in the White House. – EPA pic, March 9, 2020.
THE number of confirmed US coronavirus cases soared past 500, including two further deaths, as President Donald Trump defended his administration’s “perfectly coordinated” response to the epidemic. The surge came as medics headed to a cruise ship off the California coast to prepare passengers for landfall, and Senator Ted Cruz went into self-quarantine after shaking hands with an infected person.
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