Iran Press/ America: An ABC News/Ipsos poll released Friday reports that 52 percent of respondents disapprove of Trump's management of the deadly outbreak, while only 47 percent approve.
The president's latest rating in the survey shows his support backsliding from the levels he achieved in mid-March, when more than half of Americans (55 percent) approved of his response and 43 percent disapproved.
Since that previous iteration of the poll was published on March 20, the administration extended its social-distancing guidelines for another 30 days and worked to increase its testing capacity for the virus.
At the same time, the administration has begun issuing more dire warnings regarding the severity of the outbreak, predicting that as many as 240,000 people could die even if Americans heed the federal government's guidance, and the number of confirmed cases of COVID-19 has soared beyond 245,000.
Friday's survey is the latest example of public polling to show support for the White House's Coronavirus response dwindling after Trump initially received higher marks for his efforts to stem the disease's rapid spread.
A Politico/Morning Consult poll released Wednesday reported that 47 percent of voters feel the administration is not doing enough to fight the virus, and 40 percent feel the administration is doing the right amount. Two weeks prior, 43 percent said the administration was not doing enough, and 39 percent said it was doing the right amount.
The ABC News/Ipsos poll was conducted April 1-2, surveying 559 adults. Its margin of sampling error is plus or minus 4.8 percentage points.
Since the first US case of the Coronavirus was identified in Washington state on Jan. 21, health officials have identified more than 270,000 cases across the United States and more than 7,400 people have died.
Worldwide, the total number of infections recorded since the beginning of the outbreak reached more than 1,000,000. Nearly 230,000 people have recovered globally, while the global death toll has neared 60,000.
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