Tomorrow will mark exactly one month to the US presidential election. The campaign has had countless twists, turns and surprises and this morning we saw the biggest one so far.

Just before 6am Irish time, US president Donald Trump tweeted that he and the First Lady Melania Trump had tested positive for the coronavirus.

Two hours earlier he had tweeted that his close aide, Hope Hicks, had tested positive and that he and Mrs Trump were awaiting their own test results and were quarantining.

Prior to the release of his own test results, Mr Trump told Fox News host Sean Hannity that it was difficult for him and those close to him to avoid the virus since so many others, including members of the military, try to interact with them.

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Trump's task: Resetting campaign that GOP fears is slipping

WASHINGTON – President Donald Trump is running out of time to recover from a series of self-inflicted setbacks that have rattled his base of support and triggered alarm among Republicans who fear the White House is on the verge of being lost to Democrat Joe Biden.The one-two punch of Trump’s coronavirus diagnosis and his widely panned debate performance also has Republicans worried they could lose control of the Senate.

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Republicans move ahead with campaign rallies, SCOTUS confirmation hearings

Confirmation hearings begin for Judge Amy Coney Barrett to the U.S. Supreme Court Monday amid fears the Capitol Hill event could become another COVID-19 super spreader.

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Fauci says he didn’t agree to be in Trump campaign ad

Anthony Fauci said on Sunday he had not agreed to be featured in an ad by President Donald Trump‘s re-election campaign and that his comments were taken out of context. Keeping Canada, U.S.

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Ridiculously Misleading Trump Campaign Ad On Coronavirus Response Misquotes Fauci — And The Doctor Is Pissed!

Poor Dr. Anthony Fauci.

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Trump to return to campaign trail, claims he’s ‘immune’ to coronavirus

Donald Trump on Sunday declared he was healthy enough to return to the campaign trail, a day after the White House doctor said he was no longer at risk of transmitting the coronavirus but did not say explicitly whether Trump had tested negative for it. Trump no longer considered ‘transmission risk’ in spreading coronavirus, doctor says Trump, who was poised Monday to host his first rally after his COVID-19 diagnosis, declared he was now “immune” from the virus, a claim that was impossible to prove and comes amid a series of outstanding questions about the president’s health.“I’m immune,” Trump said in an interview on Fox News.

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Trump insists he's free of virus, ready for campaign trail

WASHINGTON – President Donald Trump on Sunday declared he was healthy enough to return to the campaign trail, a day after the White House doctor said he was no longer at risk of transmitting the coronavirus but did not say explicitly whether Trump had tested negative for it.Trump, who was poised Monday to host his first rally after his COVID-19 diagnosis, declared he was now “immune" from the virus, a claim that was impossible to prove and comes amid a series of outstanding questions about the president's health. “I’m immune," Trump said in an interview on Fox News.

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Biden harnesses history to describe urgency of 2020 campaign

GETTYSBURG, Pa. – Presidential hopefuls tend to declare every upcoming election the most important one that voters have faced in their lifetime. Joe Biden goes bigger.The Democratic nominee portrays 2020 as an entanglement of social, economic, political, environmental and public health crises as threatening to America’s stability as the Civil War and the Great Depression.

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Jamaicans in Florida energized by Harris on 2020 ticket

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. – President Donald Trump and Joe Biden are entering the final stretch of the campaign in a fierce battle for Latino voters who could sway the results in Florida and determine who wins the White House.But in this ultimate battleground state where nearly 10 million voters participate in elections often decided by a mere percentage point, other communities could suddenly become critical.That's where the booming Black Caribbean community centered in Broward County comes in. Voters in this Democratic stronghold are eager to defeat Trump, but say they are even more energized to turn out in support of California Sen.

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Judge throws out Trump campaign's lawsuit against Pennsylvania

HARRISBURG - A federal judge in Pennsylvania on Saturday threw out a lawsuit filed by President Donald Trump's campaign, dismissing its challenges to the battleground state's poll-watching law and its efforts to limit how mail-in ballots can be collected and which of them can be counted.Elements of the ruling by U.S. District Judge J.

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U.S. election: Trump to restart campaign with White House, Florida events

Donald Trump and his team laid out an aggressive return to political activities, including a big White House event on Saturday and a rally in Florida on Monday, a week after his hospitalization for a virus that has killed more than 210,000 Americans.As questions linger about his health — and Democratic opponent Joe Biden steps up his own campaigning — Trump planned to leave the Washington area for the first time since he was hospitalized. He is also increasing his radio and TV appearances with conservative interviewers, hoping to make up for lost time with just over three weeks until Election Day and millions already voting.

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Trump restarting campaign with White House, Florida events

WASHINGTON – Looking to shove his campaign back on track, President Donald Trump and his team laid out an aggressive return to political activities, including a big White House event on Saturday and a rally in Florida on Monday, a week after his hospitalization for a virus that has killed more than 210,000 Americans.As questions linger about his health — and Democratic opponent Joe Biden steps up his own campaigning — Trump planned to leave the Washington area for the first time since he was hospitalized.

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Trump sets Saturday White House event, Monday rally in Florida in 1st since COVID-19 diagnosis

LOS ANGELES - On Saturday, President Donald Trump will host his first in-person event at the White House since testing positive for the coronavirus.FOX News confirmed the news on Friday.The event, scheduled Saturday on the South Lawn, is expected to have at least several hundred supporters in attendance, according to the Associated Press. Trump will address the group from the White House balcony, according to an official.A person with knowledge of the planning said all attendees must bring masks or will be provided with them, and also will be given temperature checks and asked to fill out a brief questionnaire.

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Second U.S. presidential debate officially cancelled

Donald Trump and Democrat Joe Biden is officially off.The nonpartisan Commission on Presidential Debates confirmed Friday that the Oct. 15 faceoff would be scrapped.

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Trump says he was headed for ‘bad phase’ during coronavirus treatment

Donald Trump is itching to get back on the campaign trail after being sidelined by a COVID-19 infection but is unlikely to hold any in-person events until at least Monday, aides said on Friday. 2nd U.S.

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Judges rejects Trump campaign suit over Philadelphia voter offices

US President Donald Trump speaks to the media as he makes his way to board Air Force One before departing from Andrews Air Force Base in Maryland on September 1, 2020, heading to Kenosha, Wisconsin to meet with law enforcement officials and to survey PHILADELPHIA - A judge on Friday rejected a bid by President Donald Trump’s campaign to force Philadelphia to allow campaign representatives to monitor people registering to vote or filling out mail-in ballots in election offices in a city repeatedly attacked by Trump as untrustworthy.Judge Gary Glazer wrote in his 14-page opinion that Pennsylvania law does not allow such representatives to observe in election offices, a stance held by election lawyers, city officials and the state’s top

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McConnell says no new COVID-19 bill likely before 2020 election

WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump's most powerful GOP ally in the Senate said Friday that Congress is unlikely to deliver another big COVID-19 relief bill before the election, casting doubt on the on-again, off-again negotiations that have failed to deliver results so far despite weeks of talks.Majority Leader Mitch McConnell told an audience in Kentucky that he doesn't see a deal coming together soon out of a “murky" situation in which the participants in the negotiations are elbowing for political advantage.“I'd like to see us rise above that like we did in March and April but I think it's unlikely in the next three weeks," McConnell said.RELATED: House Democrats pass COVID-19 relief bill as talks drag onHe spoke after Trump apparently

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Trump sets out to get campaign back on track

WASHINGTON – President Donald Trump set out to get his campaign back on track Friday, a week after he was sidelined with the coronavirus that has killed more than 210,000 Americans.As questions linger about his health, Trump began speaking directly to voters, on the radio, less than four weeks from Election Day, and he eyed a return to travel as soon as Monday. The president has not been seen in public — other than in White House-produced videos — since his return days ago from the military hospital where he received experimental treatments for the virus.

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McConnell says no COVID-19 bill likely before Election Day

WASHINGTON – President Donald Trump's most powerful GOP ally in the Senate said Friday that Congress is unlikely to deliver another big COVID-19 relief bill before the election, casting doubt on the on-again, off-again negotiations that have failed to deliver results so far despite weeks of talks.Majority Leader Mitch McConnell told an audience in Kentucky that he doesn't see a deal coming together soon out of a “murky" situation in which the participants in the negotiations are elbowing for political advantage.

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Trump plans return to campaign trail, awaits 'negative' Covid-19 test

Donald Trump prepared on Friday to return to the campaign trail with two potential rallies at the weekend after his COVID-19 diagnosis sidelined him for a week in the White House race against Democratic nominee Joe Biden.But questions remained about whether he was still contagious and whether his campaign, whose leadership has also been hit hard by the coronavirus, could put on the events at short notice.Trump, who announced on Oct 2 he had the virus and spent three nights in a military hospital, said late on Thursday he was feeling "really good" and aimed to campaign in Florida on Saturday and in Pennsylvania on Sunday.White House spokeswoman Kayleigh McEnany said on Friday the president was hard at work and ready to go as soon as he got

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Electoral College vs. the popular vote: Why either can outweigh the other on any given election year

Have you ever wondered why is it that one candidate can win the popular vote but another wins the electoral vote, and thus, the presidency?Well, it’s because that’s how the framers of the Constitution set it up.This system of electing presidents is a big reason why President Donald Trump won the election in 2016.Four candidates in history have won a majority of the popular vote only to be denied the presidency by the Electoral College. That includes Hillary Clinton, who had the largest popular vote margin of any losing presidential candidate in U.S.

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Trump says he may be tested for coronavirus Friday, refuses to confirm he’s negative

Donald Trump said Thursday he will “probably” get tested for the novel coronavirus on Friday, while refusing to confirm if he’s tested negative since returning to the White House after three days of hospital care.Speaking to Fox News, Trump declined multiple times to clearly say if he’s been tested for COVID-19 or when his last test even was, as speculation continues to swirl around his health even while his doctors cleared him for a return to public events. Trump could return to public events as soon as Saturday, doctor says He eventually told the host, Sean Hannity, that “there’s no reason to test all the time.”“Probably the test will be tomorrow,” Trump said.

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Trump could return to public events as soon as Saturday, doctor says

Donald Trump‘s physician said on Thursday that Trump had completed his course of therapy for the coronavirus, had remained stable since returning to the White House and could return to public engagements on Saturday.Dr. Sean Conley said in a memo released by the White House that Trump had responded “extremely well” to treatment without any evidence of adverse effects.Trump was hospitalized on Friday after he announced he had contracted the coronavirus.

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COVID-19 rattles US election lead-up as global total tops 36 million

COVID-19 developments—including President Donald Trump's infection and the spread of the virus in White House ranks—continue to stir up the final weeks of the US presidential campaign, as the global total passed 36 million and a number of European countries reported new record daily highs.

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Biden campaign asks for debate to be pushed back a week after Trump declines virtual event

WASHINGTON (AP) - President Donald Trump said Thursday he would skip next week's debate with Democratic nominee Joe Biden after organizers said it would be held virtually after Trump got COVID-19.

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Biden campaign commits to virtual debate; Trump claims he won't participate

WASHINGTON (AP) - President Donald Trump vowed Thursday not to participate in next week's debate with Democratic nominee Joe Biden after organizers announced will take place virtually because of the president's diagnosis of COVID-19.“I’m not going to do a virtual debate" with Biden, Trump told Fox News, moments after the Commission on Presidential Debates announced the changes due to Trump's diagnosis.That cast serious doubts on whether the event will go forward, even as Biden's campaign vowed that its candidate will participate.“Vice President Biden looks forward to speaking directly to the American people," deputy Biden campaign manager Kate Bedingfield said in a statement.It is more evidence that the race remains defined by the virus,

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2nd U.S. presidential debate between Trump, Biden will be virtual

The second U.S. presidential debate between Donald Trump and Joe Biden will be virtual, with the two candidates speaking from separate remote locations, the Commission on Presidential Debates announced Thursday.The announcement comes nearly a week after Trump said he’d tested positive for the coronavirus.The debate, scheduled for Oct.

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Pence, Harris clash over COVID-19 response during vice presidential debate

Mike Pence and Democrat Kamala Harris turned the only vice presidential debate of 2020 into a dissection of the Trump administration’s handling of the coronavirus pandemic, with Harris labeling it “the greatest failure of any presidential administration.”Pence, who leads the president’s coronavirus task force, acknowledged that “our nation’s gone through a very challenging time this year,” yet vigorously defended the administration’s overall response to a pandemic that has killed 210,000 Americans. U.S.

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Pence refuses to take responsibility for White House coronavirus outbreak in Harris debate

Mike Pence on Wednesday refused to address how White House officials and lawmakers — including himself — failed to follow public health measures at an event linked to multiple coronavirus cases.During the vice presidential debate with Democratic Sen. Kamala Harris, Pence was asked by moderator Susan Page why Americans should be expected to follow federal guidelines such as mask-wearing and social distancing, when those measures were barely seen among attendees in the Rose Garden on Sept.

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‘Fed up’: Trump losing support of key demographic ahead of election, polls show

Donald Trump is losing votes among a key demographic ahead of the 2020 election, according to recent polling.Trump has been losing votes among senior citizens, according to polls, and Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden has been gaining them — something relatively rare for a Democratic nominee, experts say.A recent poll by CNN and SSRS, an independent research company, showed 60 per cent of respondents aged 65 and up saying they would vote for Biden, while 39 per cent would vote for Trump.The poll, conducted between Oct.

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Vice President Mike Pence to host campaign events in Orlando, The Villages

ORLANDO, Fla. – Vice President Mike Pence will make multiple campaign stops in Central Florida this week starting with a visit to woo Latino voters in Orlando.According to the Trump-Pence campaign, he will host a “Latinos for Trump” event on Saturday at Central Christian University at 11 a.m.

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Trump changes tune, pushes for some COVID-19 relief after shutting down talks

White House on Wednesday tried to salvage its favorite items lost in the rubble of COVID-19 relief talks that President Donald Trump blew up, with his administration pressing for $1,200 stimulus checks and a new wave of aid for airlines and other businesses hard hit by the pandemic.In a barrage of tweets, Trump pressed for passage of these chunks of assistance, an about-face from his abrupt and puzzling move on Tuesday afternoon to abandon talks with a longtime rival, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi. The California Democrat has rejected such piecemeal entreaties all along.Trump’s tweets amounted to him demanding his way in negotiations that he himself had ended.

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Trump itches for return to campaign despite remaining infectious with coronavirus

Donald Trump’s return to the White House is poised to reshape the campaign’s final four weeks as aides debated how to move past an extraordinary setback while grappling with how to send an infected president back on the road.A race that had remained steady throughout the tumult of 2020 now threatens to slip away from the president after he spent 72 hours hospitalized with COVID-19, the very disease that has fundamentally altered the country he leads and the campaign he wanted to run.

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Trump campaign's next steps unclear after White House return

WASHINGTON – President Donald Trump’s return to the White House is poised to reshape the campaign’s final four weeks as aides debated how to move past an extraordinary setback while grappling with how to send an infected president back on the road.A race that had remained steady throughout the tumult of 2020 now threatens to slip away from the president after he spent 72 hours hospitalized with COVID-19, the very disease that has fundamentally altered the country he leads and the campaign he wanted to run.

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Biden says 2nd presidential debate should be cancelled if Trump still has coronavirus

Joe Biden said on Tuesday that next week’s scheduled debate with Republican President Donald Trump should not take place if Trump is still infected with COVID-19.Biden said the Oct. 15 debate in Miami should only be staged under strict health guidelines and called the coronavirus outbreak that has hit Trump and a wave of other White House officials “a very serious problem.” U.S.

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Hopes of a covid vaccine before US election dim as regulators assert power

Donald Trump has always been the biggest backer of making a vaccine available before the election.

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Donald Trump Is Ending Coronavirus Relief Talks Until After the Election

President Donald Trump is ending negotiations regarding COVID-19 relief efforts.

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Trump Halts Coronavirus Aid Talks Until After the Election

President Donald Trump on Tuesday called an abrupt end to negotiations with Democrats over additional COVID-19 relief, delaying action until after the election despite ominous warnings from his own Federal Reserve chairman about the deteriorating conditions in the economy. Trump tweeted that House Speaker Nancy Pelosi was "not negotiating in good faith" and said he's asked Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell to direct all his focus before the election into confirming his U.S.

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Trump halts COVID-19 stimulus talks until after election

U.S. President Donald Trump removes his mask upon return to the White House from Walter Reed National Military Medical Center on October 05, 2020 in Washington, DC.

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Trump halts coronavirus relief talks, says they won’t resume until after election

Donald Trump abandoned COVID-19 relief talks on Tuesday, saying they won’t resume until after the election. The move came as the chairman of the Federal Reserve said that further fiscal intervention is needed to prevent the economy from spiraling downward.Trump tweeted that House Speaker Nancy Pelosi was “not negotiating in good faith” and said he’s asked Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell to direct all his focus before the election into confirming his U.S.

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Trump halts COVID-19 relief talks until after election

WASHINGTON – President Donald Trump said Tuesday that he has instructed aides to stop negotiating on another round of COVID-19 relief until after the election.Trump tweeted that House Speaker Nancy Pelosi was “not negotiating in good faith" and said he's asked Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell to direct all his focus before the election into confirming his U.S.

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Countering Trump, US officials defend integrity of election

WASHINGTON – Four weeks ahead of Election Day, senior national security officials provided fresh assurances about the integrity of the elections in a video message Tuesday, putting them at odds with President Donald Trump’s efforts to discredit the vote. “I'm here to tell you that my confidence in the security of your vote has never been higher,” Chris Krebs, the director of the Department of Homeland Security's Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Agency, said in the video message.

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Infected Trump seen ‘gasping’ from White House balcony before photo op

Donald Trump removed his mask in an apparent display of strength from the White House balcony Monday evening, after leaving the hospital in the middle of his fight with COVID-19.However, the president’s attempt at a viral moment was still touched by the coronavirus coursing through his body, as footage seemingly shows him gasping for air before staging a stern-faced salute from the balcony. Trump’s ‘don’t be afraid’ message after coronavirus treatment is ‘appalling,’ experts say Trump returned to the White House on Monday evening after a three-night stay at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center following a positive COVID-19 test on Friday.

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U.S. election: Biden seeks to expand map as Trump recovers from coronavirus

Donald Trump recovers from the coronavirus, Joe Biden is capitalizing on having the campaign trail largely to himself by hitting critical swing states and investing in longtime Republican bastions that he hopes might expand his path to victory.The Democratic presidential nominee made his second trip to Florida in a little over two weeks on Monday. His visit to Miami was designed to encroach on some of Trump’s turf, even swinging through Little Havana, a typically conservative area known for its staunch opposition to the communist government that Fidel Castro installed in Cuba.

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Kellyanne Conway Lied To Her Daughter About COVID Test Results — And Got Her Infected?!

We’ve come to expect the worst from this president’s cronies, but this… this might be a new low.

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Trump says he’ll be released from Walter Reed Monday following COVID-19 treatment

BETHESDA, Md. - President Donald Trump said he’s leaving the military hospital where he has been treated for symptoms of COVID-19 and will continue his recovery at the White House.The president said on Twitter that he will be discharged from Walter Reed Medical Center at 6:30 p.m. ET Monday.“Feeling really good,” Trump wrote.

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The impact of President Donald Trump testing positive for COVID-19 on the U.S. elections

Author and chair of the political science department at Western University Matthew Lebo gives more insights about President Donald Trump’s road to recovery and what this could mean for the U.S. elections.

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Pennsylvania Senator Pat Toomey won't run for re-election, or governor

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Trump’s COVID-19 diagnosis: President aims for Monday release after supporter drive-by

BETHESDA, Md. - President Donald Trump was hoping for a Monday discharge from the military hospital where he is being treated for COVID-19, a day after he briefly ventured out while contagious to salute cheering supporters by motorcade in a move that disregarded precautions meant to contain the deadly virus that has killed more than 209,000 Americans.White House officials said Trump was anxious to be released after three nights at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center, where doctors revealed on Sunday that his blood oxygen level dropped suddenly twice in recent days and that they gave him a steroid typically only recommended for the very sick.

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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

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