Trump: coronavirus 'social distancing' gives time 'to focus on our personal relationship with God'

As Americans maintain their physical distance to combat coronavirus, President Trump said Wednesday that this Holy Week for Christians and Passover for Jews is a time that Americans can increase their faith.

Trump also said he spoke on the phone earlier in the day with 10,000 American faith leaders to 'thank them for raising the spirits of our people during these very difficult days." 

"While we may be physically apart, we can use this time to pray, to reflect and to focus on our personal relationship with God," Trump said at the daily White House coronavirus task force briefing. 

Trump had previously hoped that the "social distancing" imposed to slow the spread of the coronavirus would end by this Easter Sunday, April 12.

"We're going to have many Easters together in churches in the future," Trump said. "We're getting closer, you see the numbers, we're getting much closer to getting our country back to the way it was."

Trump also said two more countries announced they had coronavirus cases, bringing the number to 184 countries "attacked."

"But we'll all win," he said. "At some point, we'll all win. We're going to do it sooner than people think."