Coronavirus Updates: Trump Halts WHO Funding; Airlines Reach Deal for Billions in Aid

By Jeff WestNews

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TRUMP HALTS TO THE WHO
Trump said he instructed his administration to temporarily halt to the World Health Organization for taking China’s claims about the “at face value” and failing to share information about the pandemic as it spread.

AIRLINES $25 BILLION STIMULUS
U.S. airlines reached preliminary agreements with the Treasury Department to access of dollars in aid as the government attempts to shore up one of the industries hardest-hit by the pandemic. The deal covers all major carriers, Treasury said in a statement. American Airlines Group Inc. said it would get $5.8 billion in payroll support, while Southwest Airlines Co. said it would get $3.2 billion.

ITALY REPORTS FEWEST CASES IN A MONTH
Italy reported its fewest new cases in a month on Tuesday, as a government-appointed task force seeks to map out a way to ease a nationwide lockdown that’s crippling the economy. There were 2,972 new cases of the disease — the fewest since March 13 — compared with 3,153 a day earlier, civil protection officials said at their daily briefing in Rome. The decline comes as testing slowed over the Easter holiday weekend. Confirmed cases in the country now total 162,488.

TRUMP, CUOMO CLASH ON REOPENING
President Donald Trump and New York Governor Andrew Cuomo publicly sparred over who has the authority to reopen the U.S. economy. “If he ordered me to reopen in a way that endangered the public health of the people of my state, I wouldn’t do it,” Cuomo said in an interview on CNN. “We don’t have King Trump. We have President Trump.” Trump said in a tweet that he’s given Cuomo all the resources he’s asked for to combat the .

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