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President Trump held a news conference on the coronavirus on March 13 in the Rose Garden, declaring a national emergency. (Video: The Washington Post, Photo: Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post)

Trump declares coronavirus outbreak a national emergency

March 13, 2020 at 10:46 p.m. EDT
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Acting Brazilian ambassador Nestor Forster, who sat at President Trump’s table Saturday night during a dinner at Mar-a-Lago, has tested positive for the coronavirus, the embassy said late Friday. Forster is the third person who visited the president’s South Florida resort last weekend to test positive for the novel virus.  
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