Trump Voices Hope for ‘Leveling-Off’ of COVID-19 in US Hot Spots

Trump Voices Hope for ‘Leveling-Off’ of COVID-19 in US Hot Spots
U.S. President Donald Trump speaks during an unscheduled briefing after a Coronavirus Task Force meeting at the White House in Washington on April 5, 2020. ERIC BARADAT/AFP via Getty Images
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WASHINGTON—President Donald Trump expressed hope on Sunday that the United States was starting to see a “leveling-off” of the COVID-19 crisis in some of the nation’s hot spots, saying Americans were perhaps being given a glipse of “the light at the end of the tunnel.”

New York, the hardest-hit state, reported on Sunday that for the first time in a week, deaths had fallen slightly from the day before, but there were still nearly 600 new fatalities and more than 7,300 new cases.