United States President Donald Trump wrote on Twitter on Friday that “strong and sharp” President of China Xi Jinping assured him China’s efforts to fight the outbreak of coronavirus will be successful and expressed hope the disease will be “gone” in spring. “Just had a long and very good conversation by phone with President Xi of China. He is strong, sharp and powerfully focused on leading the counterattack on the Coronavirus. He feels they are doing very well, even building hospitals in a matter of only days. Nothing is easy, but he will be successful, especially as the weather starts to warm & the virus hopefully becomes weaker, and then gone. Great discipline is taking place in China, as President Xi strongly leads what will be a very successful operation. We are working closely with China to help!” tweets from the US president said. Meanwhile, the coronavirus death toll is nearing the one from SARS 17 years ago, when 774 people died over the course of eight months. As of Friday, there have been 635.deaths and at least 31,400 infections.