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Trump to participate in virtual G20 summit
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IANS | 21 Nov, 2020
The White House announced that US President Donald Trump will
participate in the virtual G20 Summit on Saturday and Sunday, as global
leaders were trying to stem the raging Covid-19 pandemic.
Although
the White House confirmed the President's participation on both days of
the Summit, information about which events he would attend was not
immediately clear, The Hill news website reported.
Saudi Arabia's
King Salman will chair the Summit, which was originally set to take
place in Riyadh but had to be moved to a virtual format due to the
pandemic.
This Summit will be the one of Trump's last appearances
with other world leaders before he is slated to leave the White House
on January 20, 2021, after losing the November 3 presidential election
to his Democratic challenger Joe Biden.
Major media outlets have
projected Biden as the winner of the November 3 presidential election
after he won more than the 270 electoral votes needed to secure victory.
Trump,
who claimed that the election was a fraud, is yet to concede and was
also mounting challenges in court over allegations of vote count
misconduct.
The Summit also comes as the overall number of global
coronavirus cases has surpassed the 57 million mark, while the deaths
have surged to more than 1.36 million, according to the Johns Hopkins
University.
In its latest update on Saturday, the University's
Center for Systems Science and Engineering (CSSE) revealed that the
current global caseload and death toll stood at 57,441,503 and
1,371,241, respectively.
The US is the worst-hit country with the
world's highest number of cases and deaths at 11,908,395 and 254,383,
respectively, according to the CSSE.
Addressing reporters at the
Rose Garden on Friday, Trump said that his administration will not
advocate a national lockdown to stem the spread of coronavirus despite
the alarming resurgence, The Hill news website reported.
On similar lines, Biden has also said that he would not implement a national lockdown to get the pandemic under control.
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