President Donald Trump on Saturday warned that America’s ‘toughest week’ of the coronavirus crisis is coming , predicting that there will be deaths as the number of Covid-19 cases surges in the days ahead.

Global deaths from the COVID-19 pandemic have soared past 60,000. There are now more than 1.2 million confirmed cases across the globe, and around 65,000 people have died since the virus first emerged in China late last year, according to a Johns Hopkins University tally.

Trump said the United States was entering “a time that’s going to be very horrendous” with “some really bad numbers.”

“This will probably be the toughest week,” he said at the White House. “There will be a lot of death.”

The president said he was committed to supplying hot spots around the country with medical supplies needed to combat the outbreak.

“We will move heaven and earth to safeguard our great American citizens,” Trump said. He announced that New York would receive “about a thousand military people — nurses, doctors, lots of other people because that’s what they need,” while thousands of other military personnel would soon be dispatched elsewhere in the U.S. to assist the government.

“They’re going into war,” Trump said. “They’re going into a battle that they’ve never really trained for.”

More than 8,000 Americans are already dead. Government forecasts predict 100,000 to 240,000 residents could succumb to the disease, only if the public adheres to social distancing guidelines for weeks.