The United States is leading the world in terms of Covid-19 testing and India is at second position, President Donald Trump said.

Washington: The United States is leading the world in terms of Covid-19 testing and India is at second position, President Donald Trump said.

So far more than 1,40,000 Americans have died due to coronavirus and 3.8 million have tested positive. While the US economy is slowly coming back to normal, the pandemic is now spreading in the Sun Belt of the country.

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“As one family, we mourn every precious life that's been lost. I pledge in their honour that we will develop a vaccine and we will defeat the virus. We're doing very well with vaccine development and therapeutic development,” Trump said at a White House news conference.

Trump also said that his administration will stop at nothing to save lives and shield the vulnerable.

Trump assured that the vaccines against the novel coronavirus will be coming a lot sooner than expected.

Trump said the US is leading the world in terms of Covid-19 testing.

Coronavirus"We're going to be over 50 million tests," he said, adding that "second country is India with 12 million (tests). Then you have seven million, six million, and four million. I think that we are doing a tremendous amount of testing.”

Trump said the data shows children have the lowest fatality risk as 99.96 per cent of all virus fatalities are adults.

Several treatments are already available in the US that can significantly reduce the severity and duration of the disease, including remdesivir, he said.