(The Center Square) -- Colorado Governor Jared Polis said the federal government needs "a coordinated national response" to the COVID-19 pandemic as the state has seen some "slippage" when it comes to mitigating the virus' spread.

The governor said Thursday that the state has seen an upwards trend in daily COVID-19 cases in 11 of the last 14 days.

"The bad news is that we've had some slippage," he said. "The rates are going up here."

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The governor also said the Trump administration lacks "a coordinated national response" to combating COVID-19.

"We need a coordinated national response to the coronavirus that we currently lack, but that's not something that I, as your governor, can deliver," Polis said. "We have to live with the president and administration we have rather than the administration that we may want.

"We want to continue what we can do to keep Colorado a positive outlier," he added.