Britain, Trump, Coronavirus: Your Tuesday Briefing

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The 12 months in e mail

Steve Kenny, The Occasions’s senior editor for nights, retains the newsroom knowledgeable of what occurred whereas many people have been sleeping. 5 nights every week, Mr. Kenny sends an e mail to editors and reporters everywhere in the world that recaps the information and prepares others for the day forward. Listed here are a couple of of his “late notes” that tell the story of 2020.

THURSDAY, JAN. 9, 2020. 2:08 A.M.

Sui-Lee Wee and Donald McNeil gave us the breaking information that researchers in China have recognized a brand new virus that’s behind a mysterious pneumonialike sickness that has brought about a panic within the central Chinese language area. “There’s no proof that the virus, a coronavirus, is instantly unfold by people, and it has not been tied to any deaths,” they write. “However well being officers in China and internationally are watching it rigorously.”

THURSDAY, MARCH 12. three:52 A.M.

Inside a five-minute interval tonight, President Trump wrapped up his coronavirus speech, Tom Hanks announced on Instagram that he and his spouse, Rita Wilson, had examined optimistic, and the N.B.A. said it was suspending its season till additional discover.

TUESDAY, JUNE 23. 12:40 A.M.

The White Home commerce adviser, Peter Navarro, set off alarms late tonight when he informed Fox Information that the commerce take care of China was “over.” He took it again fairly rapidly — or stated, quite, that his remarks had been taken “wildly out of context” — however not earlier than inventory markets in Asia started to dive.

TUESDAY, OCT. 6. 1:58 A.M.

We obtained off to a busy begin, with Trump’s return to the White Home and his dramatic maskless salute on the balcony overlooking the South Garden. Then he launched a video recorded on the White Home during which he informed People that Covid-19 was nothing to worry.

That’s it for this briefing. See you subsequent time.

— Victoria

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To Theodore Kim and Jahaan Singh for the break from the information. You may attain the workforce at briefing@nytimes.com.

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