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Coronavirus live news: Trump pressed on false death rate claim as Europe faces second wave

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US president flounders in media briefing and TV interview; France could lose control any time; Nadal withdraws from US Open. Follow all the developments

Mexico has reported 6,148 new confirmed coronavirus cases and 857 additional fatalities, bringing the total in the country to 449,961 cases and 48,869 deaths, the health ministry has announced.

It’s worth revisiting Donald Trump’s car-crash interview broadcast in the US on Tuesday.

The US president, pressed by Axios political correspondent Jonathan Swan about the country’s death toll of 156,000, said: “It is what it is”. He also reiterated his claims that the US had racked up more cases than any other country because it was testing more people, saying that children with a “runny nose” were being added to the tally.

Related: 'They're dying … it is what it is': key takeaways from Trump's shocking interview

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