Washington: US President Donald Trump has warned Americans to brace for a “very horrendous” number of coronavirus deaths in the coming days.
Trump said the US was entering “a time that’s going to be very horrendous” with “some really bad numbers”.
“This will probably be the toughest week. There will be a lot of deaths,” the President during a briefing at the White House on Saturday.
At the same time, Trump stressed that the US — where infections have surpassed 300,000 — cannot remain shut down forever. “Mitigation does work but again, we’re not going to destroy our country. I’ve said it from the beginning that the cure cannot be worse than the problem,” he added.
