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Hello and welcome to today’s live coronavirus pandemic coverage with me, Helen Sullivan.
Over the course of a particularly tone deaf and worrying press conference, US President Donald Trump announced that he will be temporarily suspend funding to the World Health Organization. US deaths meanwhile have passed 25,000 – a fifth of the global total – and its confirmed cases number more than 600,000.
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