President Donald Trump has said that what China has done to the world should not be forgotten.
Washington:
The United States has the largest COVID-19 testing program in the world, better than large countries like Russia, China, India and Brazil, President Donald Trump said on Monday, saying that America has “about the lowest death rate” due to the disease in the world.
“We have one of the lowest death rates in the world,” said Trump at a White House roundtable. To date, more than 34 lakh Americans have tested positive for COVID-19 and more than 1,37,000 have died from the disease, which are the two largest numbers of all countries.
The large number of positive cases, said the president, is due to the massive testing efforts undertaken by his administration, more extensive than any other country.
“We test more than anyone by far. And when you test, you create cases. So we created cases. I can tell you that some countries, they test when someone enters a sick hospital or perhaps enters in a doctor’s office, but usually a hospital. That’s the test they do, so they don’t have a case, when we have all these cases. So it’s a double-edged sword, ” he said.
At the same time, the United States has the lowest or roughly the lowest death rate in the world, Trump added. “We are doing a great job. We are doing very well with the vaccines and we are doing very, very well with the therapies. I think we will soon have very good information,” he said in response. to a question.
“But we have the best and certainly, by far, the largest testing program in the world. If you have tested China or Russia or one of the largest countries, if you have just tested India, for example , the way we test, you would see numbers that would be very surprising. Brazil too. You know, Brazil has a big problem, but they don’t do tests like we do, “said Trump.
“So we do the tests and by doing the tests we have a huge number of cases. For example, we did 45 million tests. If we did half that number, you would probably have half of the cases – around of that number. If we did another half of that, you would have half the numbers. Everyone would say, “Oh, we are doing so well in cases,” he added.
Responding to a question, Trump said that what China had done to the world should not be forgotten.
“I think what China did to the world with what happened – the Chinese plague – you can call it the China virus, you can call it whatever you want. It has about 20 different names What they have done to the world must not be forgotten, “he said.
The trade agreement with China that was signed earlier this year remains intact, the president said. “It’s intact, they (China) buy. Whether they buy or not, it’s up to them. They buy,” he said.
