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As global deaths pass 100,000, White House adviser also cautions against lifting restrictions
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Donald Trump has begun agitating once again for the reopening of the coronavirus-battered US economy, concerned by his deflating approval ratings and exploding unemployment figures, which this week showed one in 10 American workers claiming jobless benefits.
As the number of deaths globally from Covid-19
approached 100,000, the president was reported to be pushing to ease restrictions at the beginning of May, having previously backed down on plans to start the US returning to normal by Easter.
Despite continuing infections across the US, the country worst affected by coronavirus, Trump told reporters at his daily briefing on Thursday that the United States was at the “top of the hill” and that he hoped to open up the economy “very, very, very, very soon”.
Trump’s remarks put him at odds, not for the first time, with the top US infectious disease expert, who warned that although early hotspots for the epidemic, like New York, were showing positive results, it was too early to relax restrictions.