Donald Trump said the United States had performed 20 million tests.
Washington:
US President Donald Trump has said that countries like India and China would have far more cases of coronavirus than America, the most affected country in the world, if they performed more tests.
Trump, in his remarks to Puritan Medical Products in Maine, said that the United States had performed 20 million tests.
Compared to the United States, Germany is at four million and there is a lot of talk about South Korea about three million tests, he said on Friday.
According to Johns Hopkins Coronavirus Resource Center, the United States has reported nearly 1.9 million cases and more than 1.09,000 deaths, making America the most affected country, while the total number of coronavirus cases in India and China amounted to 2.36.184 and 84.177 respectively.
India has so far performed more than 4 million tests for coronavirus, according to the Ministry of Health.
Commenting on COVID-19 tests in the United States, Trump said, “We will have well over 20 million tests. Remember that when you test more, you have more cases.
“I tell my people every time we test; you find cases because we are doing more testing. If we have more cases, if we wanted to do tests in China or India or elsewhere, I promise you that there would be more cases. .. you are doing a fantastic job taking out the swabs. “
Puritan is one of the only manufacturers in the world to produce high quality medical pads that are essential for rapid testing.
“And every swab you make at Puritan is proudly stamped with the beautiful phrase made in the United States.”
“Thanks to the testing capacity that you make possible, our country is reopening and our economy is recovering like no one ever thought possible,” he said.
Referring to the latest monthly employment figures, Trump said the economy was on the right track again.
“We’ve absolutely broken expectations, and it’s the biggest monthly job increase in American history, think about it; it’s a long time.
“I think it’s more than double or about double our highest level before, so it’s the biggest monthly increase in employment in American history. And we’re going to have a phenomenal next year “We are going to have a wonderful couple of months before the November 3 election, a very, very important date,” said the president.
Seeking to be re-elected for his second consecutive term, Trump is opposed to Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden in the November 3 presidential elections. Most opinion polls show that Biden is several points ahead of Trump.
“It’s going to be a very important election because the only thing that can spoil it is if you get the wrong president and they raise your taxes, and they open up your borders so that everyone flocks into our country, “said Trump.
Reiterating that he has built a strong economy in the past three years, Trump has promised to put the economy back on track, which has been hit hard by the coronavirus pandemic.
Describing the fight against the coronavirus as the largest national and industrial mobilization since World War II, Trump said that his administration had mobilized all the power of the U.S. government and U.S. industry to defeat the invisible enemy.
“He is indeed an enemy. He came from China, should have been arrested in China. They did not do it,” he said.
The administration, he said, has delivered more than 1.5 billion personal protective equipment to primary care doctors and nurses. “We’ve cut red tape to speed up vaccine development. And the vaccines are progressing incredibly well, wait and see, and the therapies. And we’ve partnered with private sector leaders like Puritan to build the capacity to test the bigger and more advanced on the face of the earth, like this one, “he said.
The Puritan plant in Maine, he said, quickly accelerated production to produce nearly 20 million foam swabs each month.
“Then in April, my administration invoked the Defense Production Act to help you grow even more. As part of a $ 75 million public-private partnership, Puritan will soon double its production to 40 million swabs per month, “added Trump.
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