Tag Archives: United States

• Trump warns China could face consequences for virus outbreak 18 April 2020 | Jeff Mason and Matt Spetalnick This post has one comment

  US President Donald Trump warned China on Saturday that it should face consequences if it was “knowingly responsible” for the coronavirus pandemic, as he ratcheted up criticism of Beijing over its handling of the outbreak. ...

• US intelligence officials suggest coronavirus came from lab in Wuhan 16 April 2020 | Ken Dilanian and Courtney Kube This post has 5 comments

  The US intelligence community is examining whether the coronavirus that caused the global pandemic emerged accidentally from a Chinese research lab studying diseases in bats. ...

• Trump halts WHO funding, with world on edge over virus lockdowns 14 April 2020 | Susan Stumme, with AFP bureaus This post has 2 comments

  US President Donald Trump on Tuesday cut off funding to the World Health Organization, accusing the UN body of mishandling the coronavirus crisis as governments grapple with how and when to get their struggling economies back. ...

• US criticizes WHO for ignoring Taiwan virus warnings 9 April 2020 | Shaun Tandon with Amber Wang in Taipei This post has one comment

  The United States on Thursday accused the World Health Organization of putting politics first by ignoring early coronavirus warnings by Taiwan, which voiced outrage over criticism from the UN body's chief. ...

• Bernie Sanders ends presidential bid, setting up Biden-Trump showdown 8 April 2020 | Michael Mathes This post has no comments yet

  Leftist US Senator Bernie Sanders suspended his presidential campaign Wednesday, clearing the way for rival Joe Biden to secure the Democratic nomination and challenge Donald Trump in November. ...

• COVID 19 – Has China failed the world? 1 April 2020 | NS Venkataraman This post has one comment

  US President Trump has been repeatedly accusing China of not informing the world adequately and in right time about the seriousness of the Coronavirus (COVID-19) issue in China. ...

• Coronavirus could take up to 200,000 US lives says health expert Fauci 29 March 2020 | Brian Knowlton This post has no comments yet

  Senior US scientist Dr Anthony Fauci issued a cautious prediction Sunday that the novel coronavirus could claim as many as 200,000 lives in the US, as officials described increasingly desperate shortages in hard-pressed hospitals. ...

• US leads global coronavirus cases, count crosses 100,000 27 March 2020 | Christine Chan This post has 5 comments

  Confirmed coronavirus cases in the United States reached 100,040 on Friday, the highest number in the world, a Reuters tally showed. Italy is second with 86,498 cases and China is third with 81,340 confirmed cases. ...

• Xi tells Trump China and US must ‘unite to fight virus’ This post has 2 comments

  China and the United States should "unite to fight" the deadly coronavirus pandemic, President Xi Jinping said in a call with Donald Trump on Friday, as he called for the US to improve relations. ...

• China expels journalists from three US newspapers 18 March 2020 This post has 2 comments

  China on Wednesday expelled American journalists at The New York Times, The Washington Post and The Wall Street Journal in the Communist government's most severe move against foreign media in recent memory. ...