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The US department of homeland security’s top official on the White House’s coronavirus task force has sought help on social media accessing a map about the virus.

Ken Cuccinelli, the DHS acting deputy secretary, first asked on Twitter if a link to the map stopped working for other people (it worked for the Guardian). In a second post, he said it looked like he couldn’t access it because it was behind a paywall.

“Seems like bad timing to stop helping the world with this (previously) useful resource,” tweeted the senior member of the Trump administration. “Here’s hoping it goes back up soon.”