Trump: U.S. may be approaching peak of COVID-19 outbreak

U.S. President Donald Trump struck a more optimistic tone about the country's progress in its effort to combat the novel coronavirus.

"We’re starting to see light at the end of the tunnel," Trump said during a White House coronavirus task force briefing. 

"And hopefully in the not too distant future we’ll be very proud of the job we all did. You can never be happy when so many people are dying, but we’re going to be very proud of the job we did to keep the death down to an absolute minimum," he stressed.

There are more than 337,000 confirmed coronavirus cases in the U.S. as of late Sunday, with more than 9,600 deaths, according to data from Johns Hopkins University.

The Trump administration has extended social distancing guidelines through the end of April that urge Americans to avoid gatherings of more than 10 people and maintain a distance of six feet or more from other individuals.