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    Coronavirus US live: top Republicans urge Trump to step back and let 'his experts speak'

    Trump wants to reopen the country next month A tale of two New Yorks: pandemic lays bare shocking inequities Live global updates See all our coronavirus coverage Support the Guardian’s independent journalism. Make a contribution LIVE Updated Donald Trump speaks during a press briefing at the White House on Thursday in Washington DC. Photograph: Oliver […] More

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    Politicising Covid-19 like playing with fire: WHO Director-General says after Trump attack – video

    Play Video 1:19 ‘Please don’t politicise this virus,’ urged World Health Organisation (WHO) director-general Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus a day after US president Donald Trump tried to pin blame on the WHO for thousands of American deaths from the coronavirus. Trump accused the WHO of having ‘called it wrong’ and threatened to pull funding. Ghebreyesus […] More

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    Coronavirus US live: US sees largest single-day Covid-19 death toll reported by any country

    US sees highest one-day death toll from coronavirus US scammers seek to capitalize on fears Black Americans dying in greater numbers from Covid-19 Live global updates See all our coronavirus coverage Support the Guardian’s independent journalism. Make a contribution LIVE Updated Medical staff move a patient into the Wyckoff Heights Medical Center emergency room on […] More

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    Trump urges Republicans to 'fight very hard' against voting by mail

    The fight to vote Donald Trump President previously said efforts to make it easier to vote would mean ‘you’d never have a Republican elected in this country again’ Donald Trump at a coronavirus taskforce press briefing at the White House in Washington DC on 7 April. Photograph: Jim Lo Scalzo/EPA Donald Trump again urged Republicans […] More

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    Coronavirus US live: Trump reportedly knew pandemic was likely in January

    Wisconsin voters go to the polls in controversial election How an unproven drug became Trump’s ‘miracle cure’ Live global updates See all our coronavirus coverage Support the Guardian’s independent journalism. Make a contribution LIVE Updated Play Video Coronavirus: New York governor provides an update on the outbreak – watch live 11.18am EDT11:18 Cuomo: Restarting life […] More

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    Wisconsin voters go to the polls in controversial election

    Wisconsin Polls open after governor tried to cancel in-person voting because of coronavirus, only to be overruled by state supreme court A resident casts a ballot outside of Roosevelt Elementary School in Racine, Wisconsin. Photograph: Scott Olson/Getty Images Wisconsin voters headed to the polls on Tuesday, to cast ballots amid a global pandemic after a […] More

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    Coronavirus US live: Trump tweets about 'light at end of tunnel' while experts warn of worst week yet

    Surgeon general warns of ‘Pearl Harbor moment’ as US faces ‘hardest week’ Fauci: no evidence anti-malaria drug Trump pushes works Live global updates See all our coronavirus coverage Support the Guardian’s independent journalism. Make a contribution LIVE Updated A woman wearing a face mask walks past the White House in Washington on 1 April 2020. […] More

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    US coronavirus live: New York governor Andrew Cuomo says 'this is war time'

    Fauci: ‘This is going to be a bad week … just buckle down’ Trump warns of ‘one of toughest weeks’ as deaths pass 8,000 312,085 cases of Covid-19 confirmed in US Live global updates See all our coronavirus coverage Support the Guardian’s independent journalism. Make a contribution LIVE Updated Play Video Coronavirus: New York governor […] More