Melania Trump tells Covid-19 victims they are ‘not alone’

First lady Melania Trump speaks on the second day of the Republican National Convention from the Rose Garden of the White House (Evan Vucci/AP)

US first lady Melania Trump offered her sympathies to those affected by coronavirus and sought to portray her husband as an uncompromising leader on the second night of the scaled-down Republican National Convention.

While others at the Republican National Convention spoke about the coronavirus as a challenge successfully conquered, Mrs Trump used her address from the Rose Garden to acknowledge the pain of lives lost and families upended by the pandemic.