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Still in the US, and President Trump has said he wants Congress to amend the coronavirus relief bill (passed yesterday!) to raise the amount of stimulus checks and eliminate wasteful spending, among other issues.
“The bill they are now planning to send back to my desk is much different than anticipated,” Trump said in a video posted on Twitter. “It really is a disgrace.”
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In the United States, 1.6m new cases of Covid were reported in the week to 20 December, the World Health Organization has said, the highest number of new cases for any single country. That weekly US increase was a rise of 14%.
The WHO’s weekly update came as California recorded a half-million coronavirus cases in the past two weeks, overwhelming emergency rooms across the state. You can read our full story on that here.
