WASHINGTON—President Trump said he hopes to have the country reopened in just over two weeks, a timeline that is dramatically sooner than what many public-health experts have recommended to help contain the coronavirus pandemic.

“I would love to have the country opened up and just raring to go by Easter,” Mr. Trump said on a Fox News town hall filmed in the White House Rose Garden on Tuesday. At a press briefing later Tuesday, Mr. Trump referred to Easter, which falls on April 12, as a “beautiful timeline” for reopening.

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