Updated: 18 Dec 2020, 17:13
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AN AMERICAN politician has blamed her father's death from Covid-19 on "dangerous criminal neglect" by Donald Trump and his administration.
Ilhan Omar, who serves as the Representative for Minnesota, claims the country's high coronavirus death toll is because leaders "didn't care about their lives".
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Ilhan Omar and her husband Tim Mynett earlier this year in DCCredit: Splash News
Speaking on the television channel MSNBC, the congresswoman slammed the administration's handling of the pandemic, with more than 311,000 deaths so far reported.
Sounding emotional, she said: "I lost my father on June 16. I remember my dad was in Kenya, he came back into the US when Covid hit because he thought he was going to be safer here.