Iran Press/ America: President Donald Trump on Saturday warned that America's "toughest week" is coming up, predicting "there will be death" as the number of COVID-19 cases surges in the days ahead.
"There will be a lot of death, unfortunately. There will be death,” Trump said in a somber start to his daily briefing on the pandemic.
"We will move heaven and earth to safeguard our great American citizens," Trump added, and he announced that New York would be getting "about a thousand military people -- nurses, doctors, lots of other people because that's what they need."
Referring to the stringent social distancing measures states had put in place around the US, Trump stressed "We have to open our country again. We don't want to be doing this for months and months and months."
The number of people infected in the U.S. has exceeded 300,000 cases, with the death toll climbing past 8,000; more than 3,500 of those deaths are in New York.
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