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In a video posted from outside the Oval Office, to which Trump has returned against the CDC’s isolation guidelines, the US President describes having contracted coronavirus, the disease that has in just under ten months killed more than 210,000 Americans and over a 1,052,269 people worldwide, as “a blessing in disguise”.
“It was a blessing from God. It was a blessing in disguise that I caught it,” Trump says.
A MESSAGE FROM THE PRESIDENT! pic.twitter.com/uhLIcknAjT
Hello and welcome to today’s live coverage of the coronavirus pandemic.
My name is Helen Sullivan and I’ll be bringing you key Covid-related Trump developments as well as global news.
