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WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration has issued new guidelines for states, individuals and employers on how to gradually revive activity and ease up on social distancing in areas where coronavirus cases are on the decline.The guidelines, distributed to governors Thursday, are published under the headline “Opening Up America Again.” They follow concerns voiced by…

President Donald Trump speaks during a daily coronavirus press briefing. | Alex Wong/Getty Images President Donald Trump defended a sharp drop in commercial laboratory coronavirus testing as a positive development Thursday despite public health experts’ warnings that the U.S. needs millions of additional tests each week to safely reopen the country. “In recent days we've…

United States President Donald Trump and World Health Organization Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus [EPA] Republican United States lawmakers called on President Donald Trump on Thursday to withhold payments to the World Health Organization (WHO) until its director-general resigns, backing Trump's criticism of the agency's handling of the coronavirus pandemic. Seventeen of Trump's fellow Republicans on…

The White House plans to release guidelines Thursday to inform states on how to relax coronavirus restrictions and reopen businesses.President Trump announced the plans during a news conference Wednesday, claiming data shows that the United States has “passed the peak” of COVID-19 cases nationwide.The decision on what individual states do, however, will fall to governors across the country.“The battle continues but…

Donald Trump and his coronavirus taskforce have unveiled a set of federal guidelines for reopening the economy, which comprise three phases but ultimately defer to governors on when and how to return their states to normal. The first phase allows for gradually returning to work while also minimizing non-essential travel. The second phase allows for…