We are tougher, tweets Trump as US battles coronavirus outbreak

US President Donald Trump has stated that the US is handling an invisible enemy but is more complicated and smarter.

“We are studying much approximately the Invisible Enemy. It is hard and smart, however, we are tougher and smarter,” Trump tweeted ahead of a White House briefing on tackling the coronavirus pandemic.

The United States has been hit exhausting by means of the coronavirus crisis, with lots dying of the COVID-19 disease throughout the USA Senior official on Sunday warned of the “hardest” week beforehand, however, some saw glimmers of a wish from a moderate slowing of fatalities.

New York, the hardest-hit state, mentioned on Sunday that for the first time in a week, deaths had fallen slightly from the day before, however, there were still nearly 600 new fatalities and more than 7,300 new instances.

“Maybe that’s a great sign,” Trump later informed reporters at a White House briefing, referring to the drop in fatalities in New York.

Trump also stated America was “very a long way down the line” on growing vaccines for the coronavirus. “We’ll see what happens,” he said. But he presented no specifics.

Louisiana has emerged as a warm spot for the virus, reporting a soar in deaths to almost 500 and higher than 13,000 instances. The governor expected the state would run out of ventilators by means of Thursday.

Places including Pennsylvania, Colorado and Washington, DC, also are starting to see growing deaths.

New York Governor Andrew Cuomo said on Sunday that new hospitalisations had fallen with the aid of 50 in step with cent over the past 24 hours. He recommended that it was now not yet clear whether the disaster was reaching a plateau within the state, which has a total of 4,159 deaths and more than 122,000 instances, by means of far the maximum of any US state.

Nationally, instances the respiratory disease crowned 336,000, while the demise toll stood at 9,573