Trump: Going to be a lot of death, we probably have never seen anything like these kind of numbers

US President Donald Trump told Americans to brace for a big spike in coronavirus fatalities in the coming days.

“There’s going to be a lot of death. We are coming up to a time that is going to be very horrendous. We probably have never seen anything like these kind of numbers. Maybe during the war, during a World War One or Two or something,” Trump said at the White House.

The United States has the world’s highest number of known cases of COVID-19, the flu-like respiratory disease caused by the coronavirus. More than 306,000 people have tested positive in the United States and over 8,300 have died, according to a Reuters tally.