Trump refuses to pass national stay-at-home order, says, flexibility needed

Stay-at-home orders issued across the US now cover at least 294 million people in at least 37 states, 74 counties, 14 cities, the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico.

US President Donald Trump has said that he will not issue a national stay-at-home order even as coronavirus cases are surging in the country.

Trump told reporters on Wednesday at a White House Coronavirus Task Force news briefing that he does not intend to do so because different states have different levels of Covid-19 cases, Xinhua reported.

"States are different and I understand that the governor of Florida Ron DeSantis issued one today and that's good, that's great. But there are some states that are different. There are some states that don't have much of a problem," he said.