Trump also raised the possibility of using light to combat the deadly viral infection.
According to the Johns Hopkins University Coronavirus Resource Centre, more than 4,000 people in the US have died due to COVID-19 and nearly 190,000 have been infected by it.
Till Monday, 43,734 confirmed cases of coronavirus were reported in the United States.
The number of people infected with COVID-19 in teh US climbed to over 140,000 and the death toll reached 2,475.
Trump's remarks came as Deborah Bix, a member of White House Task Force on coronavirus, based on a model from actual data from the ground, said the death toll in the US could be between 1,00,000 to 2,00,000, with the strict implementation of the existing mitigation measures including social distancing till April 30.
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