India, China will have more Covid-19 cases than US: Donald Trump

Donald Trump

Washington: US President Donald Trump has said that countries like India and China would have much more coronavirus cases than America, the worst-hit country in the world, if they conduct more tests.

Trump said that the US has carried out 20 million tests. Compared to the US, Germany is at four million and much talked about South Korea is about three million tests, he said.

India has so far conducted over 4 million coronavirus tests, according to the health ministry.

Commenting on the Covid-19 tests in the US, Trump said: We will be well over 20 million tests. Remember this, when you test more, you have more cases.

I say to my people every time we test; you find cases because we do more testing. If we have more cases, if we wanted to do testing in China or in India or other places, I promise you there would be more cases you are doing a fantastic job in getting out the swabs.

Referring to the latest monthly employment numbers, Trump said that the economy is now back on track.

We absolutely shattered expectations, and this is the largest monthly jobs increase in American history, think of that; that's a long time.

I think it's more than double or about double of what our highest was before so this is the largest monthly job increase in American history and we're going to have a phenomenal next year. We're going to have a tremendous couple of months prior to the election on November 3 very, very important date, the president said.

Reiterating that he has built a strong economy in the last three years, Trump vowed to bring the economy back on track, which has been badly hit by the coronavirus pandemic.

Describing the fight against coronavirus as the greatest national and industrial mobilisation since the World War II, Trump said that his administration has marshaled the full power of the US government and US industry to defeat the invisible enemy.