Trump's defiant remarks comes amid a record breaking surge in new COVID-19 cases in the United States.

Officials reported 3,778 "probable'' deaths, where doctors were certain enough of the cause of death to list it on the death certificate, and 6,589 confirmed by a lab test, pushing total fatalities in the city over 10,000.

U.S. President Donald Trump said he wasn’t concerned “at all” about the coronavirus getting closer to the White House.