New York State, which has recorded 630 coronavirus-related deaths in the past 24 hours, the darkest day since the start of the Covid-19 epidemic for the most affected state in the United States, is expected continue to pay a heavy price.
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" There are going to be a lot of deaths. The next two weeks are going to be the worst, "Donald Trump said on Saturday, announcing the deployment of thousands of additional troops to the most affected states, including a thousand in New York.
" We have to reopen our country," it cannot go on like this "for months and months," insisted the president of the United States during a press briefing. "People are paying here and people have to go back to work," he added. "Sports fans want to go to their baseball, soccer, golf games," he also said.
The American president reiterated that he would not order general confinement in the 50 American states, under the Constitution. Donald Trump, finally, assured that the Republican Convention should be maintained next August.
The American president has supported chloroquine treatment - subject to many debates in France: " it's going to be on government strategic reserves", he said, adding that he planned "29 million doses ' of this treatment in national stocks.
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