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Donald Trump speaks during the daily briefing on the coronavirus at the White House on 8 April 2020.
Photograph: Mandel Ngan/AFP via Getty Images
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Summary
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Report: US intelligence warned of the coronavirus threat as early as November
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Coronavirus briefing begins
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Today so far
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Linda Tripp, who made Lewinsky tapes, has died – reports
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Today so far
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New York once again sees highest single-day death toll
Report: US intelligence warned of the coronavirus threat as early as November
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Fact check: Trump acted quickly
“People were shocked I acted so quickly” on coronavirus, Trump said. “And everybody thought I was wrong because I did act so quickly as you know with respect to closing the borders.”
In fact, it was almost six weeks after the first case of coronavirus was confirmed in the country that the Trump administration moved to ramp up coronavirus testing, allowing laboratories and hospitals to finally conduct their own Covid-19 tests to speed up the process.”
Donald Trump may not have been expecting this, but a lot of other people in the government were – they just couldn’t get him to do anything about it,” an unnamed government official told the Washington Post. “The system was blinking red.”
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