President Donald Trump speaks about the coronavirus in the James Brady Press Briefing Room of the White House, Friday, April 3, 2020, in Washington. NINE US President Donald Trump defended his response to the coronavirus outbreak in an extraordinary press conference. The centrepiece of this narrative is Trump's travel ban on China, which he claims the WHO "fought". Australia, by contrast, had a similar travel ban, but tested far more people early on. Well into March, Trump and his allies continued to brag that the travel ban had "contained" Covid-19, which they christened "the China virus".

Source: Stuff April 16, 2020 08:26 UTC