Published 10:37 IST, March 16th 2020

Donald Trump shares awareness video amid COVID-19 scare, says 'we're in this together'

As the deadly coronavirus continues to spread to more than 155 countries, US President Donald Trump shared a video raising awareness on how to contain COVID-19.

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As deadly coronavirus continues to spread to more than 155 countries, United States President Donald Trump shared a video on March 16 raising awareness on how to protect yourself from contracting COVID-19. confirmed cases in US have reached 3,782 with at least 69 deaths and Trump urged citizens to “do your part”. From meeting and travel precautions to personal hygiene, US President wants citizens to contribute to stopping spread of fatal virus and video is titled, “we're in this toger”.

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However, just an hour before sharing video of togerness while dealing coronavirus outbreak, Trump targetted former US Vice President Joe Biden and US Senator Bernie Sanders after ir debate ended and called it “boring”. He furr accused Biden of lying when he claimed that Trump wants to cut social security and medicare, instead, US President claimed that he “saved” Social Security and Medicare”.

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Coronavirus website

Meanwhile, in a bid to make people more informed, Google has w anunced that company is “partnering” with US government to create a national website with information about coronavirus symptoms and testing information. In a series of tweets by Google communications, it, however, did t mention time frame of when such a website would be functional. 

Trump had said in a White House briefing that Alphabet Inc with help of engineers at Google are creating a website which will enable people to check wher y have symptoms of deadly COVID-19 which has been declared a pandemic by World Health Organisation. However, company had earlier declined to say if it would be publishing a national-scale website for COVID-19 testing anytime soon.  

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10:37 IST, March 16th 2020