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Newsday: 16/04/2020 04:06 GMT: Trump says virus 'has passed its peak' in US

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16/04/2020 04:06 GMT: Trump says virus 'has passed its peak' in US

Trump says virus 'has passed its peak' in US

BBC World Service - Newsday, Trump says virus 'has passed its peak' in US

"We'll be the comeback kids," the president says, predicting some states will reopen soon

"We'll be the comeback kids," the president says, predicting some states will reopen this month.

President Trump says the coronavirus has passed its peak in infections in the US, but the picture across the country varies considerably. Cities like New York and Chicago have suffered horribly, but we'll hear how San Francisco may have avoided the worst of the disease.   

Melinda Gates, from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation gives us her responds to President Trump's decision to cut funding to the World Health Organization.

And how Ukraine managed to tackle a wildfire that threatened the site of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster.

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