Trump says he won’t extend distancing guidelines as death toll passes 60,000
US death toll at 60,207 as Trump delivers an update assessment and Jared Kushner says response is ‘a great success story’
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Donald Trump has said the federal government will not be extending its coronavirus social distancing guidelines once they expire on Thursday, even as the number of Americans who have died of coronavirus surpassed 60,000.
The country has recorded 60,207 deaths from coronavirus, and 1,030,487 cases of the virus have been confirmed in the US according to data compiled by Johns Hopkins University. The US accounts for around one-third of all confirmed cases worldwide.
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