the American leader believes that other countries lag behind the USA in quality tests.
TASS, April 29. President of the United States Donald trump explained such a large number of identified cases of infection with coronavirus in the country — 1 million well-functioning system of testing infection. About this he wrote on Wednesday on Twitter.
“the Only reason why in the US there are 1 million cases of coronavirus, is that our system of testing is better than in any other country in the world. Other countries are far behind the us in testing, and therefore cases of infection they are much less,” he said.
According to the Johns Hopkins University, which conducts calculations on the basis of information Federal and local authorities in the United States recorded more than 1 million cases of infection with coronavirus, had died almost 58 thousand people. The number of infected US far ahead of any other country in the world — in Spain, which is on the second place by number of cases, there are only about 232 thousand
At the same time, restrictive measures imposed to prevent further spread of the pandemic, causing serious damage to the economy of the United States. According to a senior adviser to trump Kevin Hassett, unemployment may reach 16-20% in June. Against this background, the occupant of the White house on April 27 has recommended that the governors of the States to abolish the sanitary restrictions as soon as possible, but so as not to endanger the health of citizens.
