Bloomberg President Donald Trump lashed out at the governor of Washington State — where 13 people have died of the coronavirus — calling him “a snake” during a press briefing on the illness. Trump’s remark, during a tour of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta, came a day after the governor, Jay Inslee, had a cordial meeting ...

Bloomberg South Korea retaliated against Japan for what it called an “irrational and excessive” request for its citizens to voluntarily quarantine themselves, as Tokyo’s outbreak-control measures renewed tensions between the neighbours. South Korea is raising its advisory for all of Japan to Level 2, or “refrain from travel,” first deputy foreign minister Cho Se-young said in a statement. It also ...

Bloomberg Support for Chancellor Angela Merkel’s bloc dropped to its weakest on record, with her party embroiled in a leadership contest and Europe’s largest economy flirting with recession. If a general election were held this Sunday, Merkel’s CDU and its Bavarian sister party, the CSU, would together garner 26%, down one percentage point from a month earlier, according to a ...