By AFP More by this AuthorWashingtonThe United States recorded 960 coronavirus deaths on Saturday, bringing its total to 103,758 since the global pandemic began, according to a tally kept by Johns Hopkins University. The country has officially logged 1,769,776 cases of the virus, far more than any other nation, the tracker by the Baltimore-based university showed at 8:30 pm (0030 GMT Sunday). The new numbers came as President Donald Trump faced a broad backlash over severing ties with the World Health Organisation during the pandemic. On Friday he moved to make that decision permanent in a major blow to the agency. AdvertisementThe European Union urged Washington to reconsider its decision to cut funding in the middle of a pandemic that has killed more than 366,000 people and devastated the global economy.

Source: Daily Nation May 31, 2020 00:56 UTC