US President Donald Trump responded with fury to accusations he did not act quickly enough to contain the coronavirus outbreak, showing journalists at his daily briefing an anti-media "propaganda video” of “fake news” reports.

Mr Trump cut to a White House-produced video during Monday's press conference in an attempt to shame media organisations for critical coverage of his response.

"Everything we did was right," said a furious Mr Trump, blaming state governors and others for the country's setbacks.

He appeared to reserve particular anger for the New York Times, which reported over the weekend that the Trump administration was issued early warnings about the coronavirus that were ignored.

The president said he wanted to share the presentation, which was produced by the White House's social media director “because we're getting fake news and I'd like to have it corrected.”