Trump cancels upcoming trips to Nevada and Colorado 'out of an abundance of caution from the Coronavirus outbreak'

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• President Donald Trump has canceled scheduled trips to Nevada and Colorado, White House press secretary Stephanie Grisham said in a statement to CNN.
• Trump planned on attending a fundraiser in Las Vegas and an event for the Republican Jewish Coalition, but the trip was canceled "out of an abundance of caution from the Coronavirus outbreak," Grisham said.
• The World Health Organization officially classified coronavirus, which leads to a disease called COVID-19, as a pandemic on Wednesday.
• In the US, at least 1,300 people in 41 states and Washington, D.C., have tested positive for the virus as of Wednesday, according to The New York Times, and at least 37 patients have died from it.
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President Donald Trump canceled his upcoming trips to Nevada and Colorado as the US grapples with an outbreak of the novel coronavirus, CNN reported.

The president planned on attending a fundraiser in Las Vegas on Friday, and he was scheduled to be the keynote speaker at a conference for the Republican Jewish Coalition on Saturday.

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