World reports just under two million Covid-19 cases in one week; UK government asks people to work from home; Madrid residents advised not to travel. Follow the latest updates
- US President Donald Trump calls 200,000 deaths ‘a shame’
- US reaches 200,000 coronavirus deaths, highest in world
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- Boris Johnson sets out new UK restrictions at ‘perilous turning point’
- Face shields ineffective at trapping aerosols, says supercomputer
Here is a transcript of that exchange between Trump and reporters:
Reporter: Why haven’t you said anything about the U.S. hitting -- why haven’t you said anything about the U.S. hitting 200,000 deaths from Covid?
Trump: Say it?
US President Donald Trump has responded to a question asked by a reporter at the White House about the US death toll – a fifth of the global total and the highest of any country worldwide – passing 200,000 by saying, “Well, I think it’s a shame”.
Trump went on to say:
I think if we didn’t do it properly and do it right, you’d have two and a half million deaths. If you take a look at alternatives, you could have two and a half million deaths or something thereabouts. You could have a number that would be substantially more [...] And you saw my United Nations speech, China should have stopped it at their border. They should have never let this spread all over the world and it’s a terrible thing.”
Q: Why haven't you said anything about the US hitting 200,000 coronavirus deaths?
TRUMP: "Go ahead. Uhhhhh. Anybody else?" pic.twitter.com/gUv1kgG9OT
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