Trump news – live: President dismisses need for coronavirus ventilators and says people should return to work ‘quickly’, as China offers to help US stop spread
Joe Sommerlad
Donald Trump has raised fresh alarm by dismissing demands from state governors for more ventilators in hospitals to fight the coronavirus, telling Fox News host Sean Hannity the equipment is unnecessary and that states “shouldn’t be relying on the federal government”.
With the US now the global epicentre of the virus having contracted 85,000 cases and seen over 1,200 deaths, the president has spoken to his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping, who has offered to help America battle the outbreak to stop its further spread.
The House of Representatives is meanwhile expected to approve a $2.2trn (£1.85trn) economic stimulus package on Friday that has already passed the Senate, handing it on to Trump to sign off from the Oval Office and deliver some much needed fiscal relief to the nation.
How US governors are fighting coronavirus – and Donald Trump
Governors have found themselves under an intense spotlight, highlighting an evolving dynamic between those running states and an impossible-to-predict president
America’s state governors have found themselves under an intense national spotlight in response to the coronavirus pandemic.
The additional scrutiny has also highlighted an evolving dynamic between these chief executives who operate the country’s states and a White House run by a mercurial president whose public statements and policy turns are often impossible to predict.
As the virus crisis has grown stronger governors’ daily press conferences and media calls on the coronavirus have become primetime events for a worried and often fearful populace. Governors, the typically aloof top state officials, are currently some of the most reliable sources of information on confirmed coronavirus cases and updates on medical supplies in response to the virus."Extremely Vulnerable"Amazon Tribes at Acute Risk from the Coronavirus
The novel coronavirus poses a deadly threat to the indigenous peoples in the Amazon rainforest. But Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro is doing nothing to protect them, says the former head of the government authority responsible for their protection.
Interview Conducted by Marian Blasberg und Jens Glüsing in Rio de Janeiro
DER SPIEGEL: Mr. Possuelo, what would be the consequences if the coronavirus began spreading among the indigenous peoples of Brazil?
Sydney Possuelo: Since the discovery of the American continent, viruses have been the largest killer. Indigenous populations that have little or no contact with white people are extremely vulnerable to all kinds of infections. Every contagion is extremely dangerous for them, much more so than for us.
Unreliability of new tests delays effort to slow coronavirus
spread in Spain
Health officials say the material was bought from a Chinese company that met EU criteria, but China says the manufacturer did not have an official license to sell its products
Madrid - 27 MAR 2020 - 06:24 EDT
Spanish health authorities said on Thursday that they have returned a shipment of rapid diagnostic tests purchased from a Chinese manufacturer after these were found to be unreliable in detecting the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus.
Health Minister Salvador Illa said the government has sent the tests back to a company named Shengzhen Bioeasy Biotechnology after Spanish microbiologists reported that the first 9,000 tests correctly identified positive cases only 30% of the time, when experts recommend a sensitivity of at least 80%. The story was first reported by EL PAÍS on Wednesday, and the Health Ministry has since confirmed it.
A new raptor discovery that means a lot
A newly-discovered feathered dinosaur that lived 67 million years ago is one of the last known surviving raptor species, researchers have found.
Palaeontologists say the Dineobellator notohesperus, which lived in New Mexico, was a "small, lightly built predator" with a tail function similar to that of a cat.
They said the findings, published in the journal Scientific Reports, offer a snapshot of life in the American south-west near the end of the reign of the dinosaurs.
As world struggles to stop deaths, far right celebrates COVID-19
Some hardliners want to use the virus as a weapon to kill minorities, as others spread further hate and conspiracy.
The new coronavirus has already infected hundreds of thousands of people, taken more than 20,000 lives and caused a level of economic, social and political disruption not seen in decades.
But for many far-right hardliners, it's a crisis to be welcomed.
The hardest-core "accelerationists" - violent neo-Nazis who want civilisation to crumble, hope that COVID-19 will turn out to be their secret weapon.
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