But the reported US death toll on Wednesday crept past 60,000, a figure that Trump in recent weeks had suggested might be the total death count. He had cited the estimate as a sign of relative success after the White House previously warned that the US could suffer 100,000 to 240,000 deaths. The US death toll from the coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19) is certain to keep growing from here. “The minimum number was 100,000 lives, and I think we’ll be substantially under that number,” he said on April 10. “Hard to believe that if you had 60,000 — you could never be happy, but that’s a lot fewer than we were originally told and thinking.”AP

Source: Manila Times April 30, 2020 16:27 UTC