Published 10:09 IST, May 6th 2020
Trump upholds chart showing US Covid testing supremacy; slams 'Do Nothing Democrats'
Unites States President Donald Trump on Wednesday shared a chart about the number of Coronavirus tests conducted by the country as compared to others
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Unites States President Donald Trump on Wednesday shared a chart on number of Coronavirus tests conducted by country as compared to ors. Taking to Twitter, he shared chart which shows that till May 4, US has conducted up to 7 million COVID-19 tests, compared to or countries like Germany, Italy, France, South Korea, Japan, who have conducted only up to three million tests.
Trump furr slammed "Do thing Democrats" and "LameStream Media" for ir criticism over handling of Coronavirus crisis in US. According to Trump, y should be proud of USA.
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'Govt did many things right'
US President Donald Trump on Tuesday while speaking to reporters in South Lawn outside White House said that his government did many things right to contain spre of coronavirus orwise country could have lost more than 2 million lives. When asked wher he was worried that states are relaxing guidelines too early, he said that he is t worried because model assumes mitigation.
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"We have to open our country. So you have all reports, look, models that have been very inaccurate. I’ve seen models that are very inaccurate. But, you kw, one model that’s very important is that if we did this a different way, we would have lost more, much more than 2 million people. And we did it right way. We did everything right. But w it’s time to go back to work," he said.
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Coronavirus crisis in US
Leing number of worldwide cases of vel coronavirus COVID-19 infection, United States is by far country with highest Covid numbers, surpassing China, Italy, and Iran. Currently, re are a total of 1,237,633 cases of Coronavirus with around 72,271 deaths.
Meanwhile, New York -- one of worst-hit spots in US, has seen a total of 25,204 deaths and over 330,139 COVID-19 positive cases. However, New York Goverr Andrew Cuomo earlier h asserted that worst phase of coronavirus pandemic is over. According to him, numbers are saying that y can w control spre of virus.
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10:09 IST, May 6th 2020