World Health Organization Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus talks during a daily press briefing on COVID-19 virus at the WHO headquaters in Geneva on March 11, 2020.
The World Health Organization praised the Trump administration's response to the COVID-19 outbreak, which has spread to all 50 states and infected at least 55,568 U.S. citizens., whom he said he spoke with Tuesday, for doing a "great job" in leveraging public and private-sector resources to fight the pandemic.
Tedros said Trump was expanding testing and is putting in place other WHO recommendations. "He takes that seriously and that's what we see," Tedros said.
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