FILE PHOTO: U.S. President Donald Trump pauses during a news conference where he declared the coronavirus pandemic a national emergency in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington, U.S., March 13, 2020. REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump said that he is attending White House meetings on Saturday on the COVID-19 outbreak caused by the coronavirus and would issue a “full report later.”
Trump issued his statement on Twitter and in a second tweet called for “SOCIAL DISTANCING.”
Reporting by Jonathan Landay; editing by Diane Craft
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