United States President Donald Trump on Monday said that his country has the biggest testing programme for the coronavirus in the world th...
United States President Donald Trump on Monday said that his country has the biggest testing programme for the coronavirus in the world that is much better than countries such as Russia, China and India. “We test more than anybody by far, and when you test, you create cases,” Trump said.
Speaking at a roundtable at the White House, Trump claimed that the US has one of the lowest mortality rates in the world. “We are doing very well with vaccines, and we are doing very, very well with therapeutics,” Trump added. “And I think we’re going to have some very good information coming out soon.”
United States is the worst-affected country from the pandemic in the world. More than 34 lakh people have have tested positive for Covid-19 in the US so far and over 1,37,000 have died, according to the Johns Hopkins University.
But Trump said the number of coronavirus cases is going up because testing is increasing. “I can tell you that some countries, they test when somebody walks into a hospital sick or walks into maybe a doctor’s office, but usually a hospital,” he added. “That is the testing they do, so they do not have cases, whereas we have all these cases. So, it...
