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Donald Trump warns that the coronavirus crisis in the United States is likely to "get worse before it gets better." "Some areas of our country are doing very well," the US president says at his first formal White House virus briefing since the end of April. "Others are doing less well." SOUNDBITE
US President Donald Trump threatens to put a "hold" on funds to the World Health Organization, accusing it of bias toward China and performing badly in the coronavirus pandemic. "We're going to put a very powerful hold on it and we're going to see," says Trump. SOUNDBITE
US President Donald Trump announces he tested negative on his second coronavirus test, during a daily coronavirus briefing at the White House. "I think I took it really out of curiosity to see how quickly it worked," he says. SOUNDBITE
President Donald Trump says he has ordered the deployment of emergency medical stations with capacity of 4,000 hospital beds to coronavirus hotspots around the United States. SOUNDBITE
The US approves the anti-malarial drug chloroquine for use as a treatment against the new coronavirus. Speaking at a White House briefing, President Donald Trump says "we're going to be able to make that drug available almost immediately." SOUNDBITE