TOKYO, MINNEAPOLIS : Confirmed coronavirus cases across the globe surged past 1 crore, a chilling reminder that the deadliest pandemic of the modern era is stronger than ever.The milestone is a rebuff to health experts and global leaders — including US President Donald Trump — who had hoped early in the pandemic that it would fade away with the summer heat.

Instead, infections are multiplying faster than ever.It took four months after the pathogen first surfaced in the Chinese city of Wuhan to reach 1 million infections.

The spread of the coronavirus has steadily accelerated, compressing the time frame to a million additional cases every week now.

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U.S. holiday weekend could further fuel COVID-19 outbreak

With over 2.8 million cases throughout the country, the U.S. still has the most COVID-19 infections in the world.

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Donald Trump says '99%' of coronavirus cases are harmless - despite death toll surge

Donald Trump claims 99 per cent of coronavirus cases are "totally harmless" - despite the country's death toll surging to nearly 130,000.

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Coronavirus: U.S. holiday could fuel COVID-19 outbreak, experts warn

United States has dipped under 50,000 new daily infections for the first time in four days, according to a tally by Johns Hopkins University, but experts fear celebrations for the July 4th weekend will act like rocket fuel for the nation’s surging coronavirus outbreak.Johns Hopkins on Sunday counted 45,300 new coronavirus infections reported Saturday in the U.S. after three days in which the daily count reached as high as 54,500 new cases.

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July 4th celebrations spark controversy amid COVID-19 pandemic

U.S. President Donald Trump is ignoring health officials pleas for Americans to take precautions this Independence Day, as COVID-19 cases continue to surge in dozens of states.

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President Trump playing politics with pandemic

U.S. President Donald Trump is fueling a partisan divide over wearing face masks, which health officials say helps prevent the spread of COVID-19 when people can’t practice physical distancing.

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President Donald Trump playing politics with the pandemic: experts

coronavirus, which would become commonly known as COVID-19 — the name of the disease caused by the virus.Since then, a health crisis not seen in more than a century has become more and more politicized.American cities and states have been forced to grapple with a constant unknown — exactly when this virus is going to spike or subside, leaving businesses, lawmakers and residents to approach each situation in one of two ways: with caution or defiance.

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July 4th military flyovers go over Philadelphia, 4 other cities

PHILADELPHIA - President Donald Trump's July Fourth celebration featured an extensive U.S. military air show over Washington, D.C., but four other cities saw get mini-versions of the air power display on Saturday,The "Salute to the Great Cities of the American Revolution" featured military flyovers in Boston, New York City, Philadelphia and Baltimore.

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Antonin Scalia, Jackie Robinson among those picked for Trump’s ‘National Garden’ of heroes

US President Donald Trump arrives for the Independence Day events at Mount Rushmore National Memorial in Keystone, South Dakota, July 3, 2020.

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Trump's 'strong wall' to block COVID-19 from China had holes

WASHINGTON : US President Donald Trump has repeatedly credited his February ban on travelers from mainland China as his signature move against the advance of the coronavirus pandemic - a “strong wall" that allowed only US citizens inside, he boasted in May.But Trump's wall was more like a sieve.Exempted were thousands of residents of the Chinese territories of Hong Kong and Macau.

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Donald Trump Holds South Dakota Rally Despite COVID-19 — And Now His Son’s Girlfriend Has Tested Positive!

Donald Trump held yet another political rally on Friday night — this time in South Dakota, at the base of Mount Rushmore.

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Vote-by-mail primary poised to test New Jersey on Tuesday

TRENTON, N.J. - New Jersey’s nearly all-mail primary on Tuesday is emerging as a test of the state’s ability to deliver a drama-free election in the face of critical tweets from President Donald Trump and a GOP seeking federal election monitors.Tuesday is the deadline for Democratic and Republican voters to postmark their ballots or deliver them to county boards of elections by 8 p.m. in contests for president, the U.S.

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July 4th military flyovers to go over Philadelphia, 4 other cities

PHILADELPHIA - President Donald Trump's July Fourth celebration will feature an extensive U.S. military air show over Washington, D.C., but four other cities will get mini-versions of the air power display on Saturday,The "Salute to the Great Cities of the American Revolution" will feature military flyovers in Boston, New York City, Philadelphia and Baltimore.

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Trump plans massive fireworks display for July 4 amid COVID-19

Independence Day celebrations amid a spike of coronavirus cases, U.S. President Donald Trump is going big for what he is promising will be a “special evening” in the nation’s capital.Trump is set hold his “Salute for America” celebration Saturday with a speech from the White House South Lawn that he says will celebrate American heritage, a military flyover over Washington, and an enormous fireworks display that is expected to draw thousands to the National Mall.The celebration comes one day after Trump kicked off the holiday weekend by travelling to Mt.

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Wolf's mask order inflames partisan fight over virus

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Coronavirus cases now rising in 40 U.S. states as Texas orders mandatory mask use

U.S. states — Arizona, California, Florida and Texas — reported a combined 25,000 new confirmed coronavirus cases Thursday as the infection curve rose in 40 of the 50 states heading into the July Fourth holiday weekend.With the number of daily confirmed coronavirus cases nationwide climbing past 50,000, an alarming 36 states saw an increase in the percentage of tests coming back positive for the virus.

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Record-setting 50,000 new COVID-19 cases in U.S.

Daily infections of COVID-19 continue to skyrocket in the U.S., with a record-shattering 50,000 new cases in a single day (July 1). As Jackson Proskow reports, the ongoing surge still hasn’t fazed U.S. President Donald Trump.

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US posts largest single-day jump in new COVID-19 cases

President Donald Trump held a White House press briefing today in which he said the 4.8 million jobs added in June prove that the economy is "roaring back" from the impact of COVID-19 and that more signs of the recovery will be apparent before the general election on Nov 3. "This is the largest monthly jobs gain in the history of our country," he said.

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Coronavirus: Trump says U.S. economy is ‘roaring back’ as they ‘put out the flames’ of COVID-19

U.S. President Donald Trump made a last-minute address to the nation from the Briefing Room at the White House Tuesday morning alongside United States Secretary of the Treasury Steven Mnuchin.

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Coronavirus: Trump says U.S. has COVID-19 ‘under control’ as total deaths pass 130,000

Speaking to reporters in the White House on Thursday, U.S. President Donald Trump reiterated his opinion that the U.S. federal government has COVID-19 “under control” even as multiple states report surging infection rates.

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Trump touts U.S. job gains as coronavirus cases hit record highs

Donald Trump at a press briefing on Thursday celebrated a government report showing the country gained 4.8 million jobs and the unemployment rate dropped to 11.1 per cent last month, even as coronavirus cases surge across the country.Trump took the victory lap as the coronavirus cases spike in states with large economies such as California, Texas and Florida, prompting local governments to once again shutter bars and other businesses where the deadly respiratory disease is thought to spread easily.“Today’s announcement proves that our economy is roaring back,” Trump said, rattling off different sectors that saw job gains according to the monthly report.

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Trump changes tone amid U.S. coronavirus outbreaks: ‘I think masks are good’

Donald Trump said Wednesday he thinks it makes him look like the Lone Ranger — and he likes it.“I’m all for masks. I think masks are good,” Trump told Fox Business in an interview.

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Dr Hilary warns the US heading for 'real trouble' due to obesity amid covid-19 pandemic

Dr Hilary Jones has warned that the US is heading for "real trouble" over the coronavirus pandemic, citing obesity and its citizens not abiding by guidelines.

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Trump promises massive July 4 firework display despite DC’s coronavirus concerns

Donald Trump’s July Fourth celebration on the National Mall will feature one of the largest fireworks displays ever and as many as 300,000 face masks will be given away to those who want them — but despite health concerns from D.C.’s mayor, no one apparently will be required to wear them.Trump made no mention of the masks or of the pandemic overall in a tweet Wednesday on his Independence Day pIans. He thanked corporate donors for supporting “what will, without question, be a special evening.”Special thank you to the @UnitedWarVets, @GrucciFireworks, @Scotts_MGro, and @FedEx — for their support of what will, without question, be a special evening! #Salute2America https://t.co/QmI58d1gcD— Donald J.

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US buys all of world’s remdesivir, preventing other countries from acquiring drug for months

According to The Guardian, the U.S.

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Coronavirus: Trump says he thinks COVID-19 will ‘sort of just disappear. I hope’

U.S. President Donald Trump, who has avoided being seen in public wearing a face covering, said on Wednesday he would wear a mask if he were in close quarters with other people in an effort to prevent the spread of the coronavirus.

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Trump says he still believes coronavirus will ‘sort of just disappear’

novel coronavirus cases, United States President Donald Trump said he still believes the virus will “just sort of disappear” at some point.“I think we’re going to be very good with the coronavirus. I think at some point that’s going to sort of just disappear, I hope,” he said during an interview on Fox Business on Wednesday.Trump ludicrously claimed to Fox Business just now that "I think we're gonna be very good with the coronavirus.

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Donald Trump buys up virtually all stocks of working Covid-19 drug remdesivir

Donald Trump has bought up virtually all stocks for the next three months of a drug shown to work against Covid-19.

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Charting the ups and downs of the World Health Organization

Sign up here for GlobalData's free bi-weekly Covid-19 report on the latest information your industry needs to know.The World Health Organization (WHO) has been thrust into the spotlight over the last few months due to the Covid-19 pandemic, which has tragically killed more than 370,000 people. Having a global organisation to coordinate the response is invaluable in a worldwide public health emergency.

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U.S. buys up worldwide stock of remdesivir, drug seen as potential COVID-19 treatment

remdesivir, a drug that’s proven effective for severely ill patients of the novel coronavirus — leaving hardly any for Canada and the rest of the world.The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) announced Monday it has secured more than 500,000 treatment courses of the drug from its sole manufacturer Gilead Sciences for American hospitals through September. Each treatment course uses an average of over six vials of the drug.

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Donald Trump 'more and more angry at China' over coronavirus spread

coronavirus, as American health officials warned they were not in "total" control of the pandemic."As I watch the Pandemic spread its ugly face all across the world, including the tremendous damage it has done to the USA, I become more and more angry at China," Trump tweeted.As I watch the Pandemic spread its ugly face all across the world, including the tremendous damage it has done to the USA, I become more and more angry at China.

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‘We won’t be social distancing,’ South Dakota governor says of Trump’s Mount Rushmore event

LOS ANGELES - President Donald Trump and first lady Melania Trump will travel to South Dakota this week for a Fourth of July celebration, despite rising coronavirus cases across the United States, and the state’s governor says there will be no social distancing measures in place at the event.Friday’s event, scheduled at Mt. Rushmore National Memorial, will be free and open to the public.

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US could hit 1 lakh new coronavirus cases a day, warns top health expert

coronavirus cases could more than double to 100,000 per day if authorities and the public fail to take steps to suppress the pandemic.Infectious disease expert Anthony Fauci, a leading member of President Donald Trump's coronavirus task force, said the United States was headed in the "wrong direction" on the pandemic and demanded that Americans wear masks and avoid crowds after lax behavior propelled new outbreaks."I'm very concerned and I'm not satisfied with what's going on, because we're going in the wrong direction," he testified to a Senate panel.Alarming spikes in new cases in southern hotspots Texas and Florida are driving the daily national total of new cases to over 40,000 per day, and they need to be tamped down quickly to avoid

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Biden and Trump agree: November election could be corrupt

ATLANTA – President Donald Trump and his challenger, Joe Biden, have found something they agree on: The November election could be rife with corruption because of how officials handle the voting process.Of course, the Republican incumbent and his Democratic rival place the prospective blame in different places.

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Donald Trump's USA buys up world's entire supply of coronavirus-fighting drug

FREE newsletter is just champion! Get the biggest and brightest stories sent straight to your inboxThe United States has bought up all existing stock of one of two drugs proven to work against Covid-19, which will not be available to any other country on Earth for the next three months.The Trump administration has outbid and out outmanoeuvred all other countries to secure medical supplies for American citizens, leaving next to nothing for the rest of the world, The Guardian reports.

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Coronavirus: Biden attacks Trump’s response to COVID-19, says America’s ‘wartime president has surrendered’

Former U.S. vice-president and Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden launched a fresh wave of criticism against current President Donald Trump over his handling of the COVID-19 pandemic, saying that Trump had “failed” Americans.

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Coronavirus: UK to resume clinical trial of anti-malaria drug taken by Donald Trump

A UK study on hydroxychloroquine will resume, just weeks after being halted.

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Coronavirus: Trump believes it is up to individuals to decide on whether to wear a mask, White House says

During a White House briefing on Monday, Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany said that U.S.

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Cuomo calls on Trump to sign executive order requiring face masks

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Coronavirus puts Israel’s West Bank annexation on pause, defence minister says

Israel’s defence minister says Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s plan to begin annexing West Bank territory will have to wait due to the country’s coronavirus crisis.Benny Gantz, who also holds the title of alternative prime minister, told his Blue and White Party on Monday that his top priority is helping the country navigate the health and economic crisis stemming from the pandemic.“Anything unrelated to the battle against the coronavirus will wait,” he said. Israeli annexation of West Bank could ignite religious war, Arab League warns Netanyahu has said he wants to begin annexing occupied land as soon as this week, in line with President Donald Trump’s Mideast plan.

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For 3rd day in a row, U.S. coronavirus cases surge by more than 40,000

coronavirus cases since the start of the pandemic.Governor Gavin Newsom’s order for bars to close in seven counties, including Los Angeles, is the first major rollback of efforts to reopen the economy in the most populous U.S. state.

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Trump wants federal hiring to focus on skills over degrees

WASHINGTON – President Donald Trump is preparing to direct the federal government to overhaul its hiring to prioritize a job applicant’s skills over a college degree, administration and industry officials say.Trump is set to sign an executive order Friday outlining a new direction for the nation’s largest employer during a meeting of the board that advises the administration on worker policy.

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Pence cancels planned bus tour of Florida after coronavirus cases surge

WASHINGTON, DC - APRIL 27: U.S. Vice President Mike Pence listens as U.S.

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Reality check: Trump suggests if you don’t look for coronavirus, it’ll go away

Donald Trump’s persistent see-no-evil posture on coronavirus testing — if you don’t look for the virus, the cases go away — defies both science and street sense. Yet he took it a step further with a comment suggesting that testing be restrained so the pandemic doesn’t look so bad.His aides passed that off as a joke.

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Indian IT professionals hit by US visa restrictions may look at Canada

U.S. President Donald Trump's latest immigration crackdown is set to further boost intake once COVID-19 restrictions ease, lawyers say.The number of successful applicants to Canada's Global Skills Strategy (GSS) programme rose five-fold over its first three years, with more than 23,000 workers approved under the top five tech categories, data provided to Reuters by Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada (IRCC) shows.More than 2,300 applications for those same top five tech roles were approved from January to March 2020, ahead of the COVID-19 shutdowns that led to border closures and a sharp drop in immigration.

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Canada’s tech sector could see more interest from workers due to U.S. immigration crackdown

Donald Trump‘s latest immigration crackdown is set to further boost intake once COVID-19 restrictions ease, lawyers say.The number of successful applicants to Canada’s Global Skills Strategy (GSS) program rose five-fold over its first three years, with more than 23,000 workers approved under the top five tech categories, data provided to Reuters by Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada (IRCC) shows.More than 2,300 applications for those same top five tech roles were approved from January to March 2020, ahead of the COVID-19 shutdowns that led to border closures and a sharp drop in immigration. The program boasts a two-week processing time.

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In Tulsa, Trump Campaign Subverted Social Distancing One Sticker at a Time

Hours before President Donald Trump took the stage last Saturday at the BOK Center in Tulsa, Oklahoma, for his first rally in the COVID-19 era, arena workers were busy labeling thousands of seats with “Do Not Sit Here Please!” stickers to promote social distancing, part of a new safety protocol at the arena known as VenueShield. Campaign staff quickly radioed over to an executive at ASM Global and asked the arena to stop labeling the seats. In fact, "they also told us that they did

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Coronavirus: Slowing down COVID-19 testing ‘is not a laughing matter,’ says Pelosi

On Friday, U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi criticized claims made by the White House that President Donald Trump was joking when he claimed he had asked officials to slow down coronavirus testing.

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States retreat as new virus cases hit an all-time high in US

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United States	Cases: 46 252 513 Deaths: 750 423 Recovered: 0
India	Cases: 34 321 025 Deaths: 459 652 Recovered: 0
Brazil	Cases: 21 835 785 Deaths: 608 235 Recovered: 0
United Kingdom	Cases: 9 215 683 Deaths: 141 607 Recovered: 0
Russia	Cases: 8 494 589 Deaths: 237 619 Recovered: 0

Global covid-19 cases hit 1 crore as pandemic gains momentum

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