Any uptick in cases in the weeks ahead could slow the economic rebirth that Donald Trump’s advisers believe he needs before he faces voters again in five months.

He claims "China has total control over the World Health Organization."

Trump retweeted a post that appeared to make fun of a photo of Biden wearing a mask in public, though he later said he didn’t mean to be critical.

Trump is eager to promote the idea that the United States is returning to normal, although the death toll from the coronavirus outbreak continues to rise and is expected to surpass 100,000 in the coming days.

He warned governors: "If they don't do it I will override the governors. In America we need more prayer, not less."

'I didn't want to give the press the pleasure of seeing it,' Trump said after wearing a coronavirus mask in private at the Ford plant in Michigan.

With little more than five months left until the election, Trump is behind Democratic rival Joe Biden in national polls and in some battleground states, such as Michigan, which he won in 2016.

Trump asserted without evidence that a study of veterans raising alarm about the drug was “false” and an “enemy statement."

Trump told reporters he has been taking the drug, hydroxychloroquine, and a zinc supplement daily "or about a week and a half now.''

The president's announcement by videoconference at the start of the World Health Organization's annual assembly marks a sharp contrast to the United States.