The U.S. leader believes that other countries lag behind the U.S. in the quality of tests.
United States President Donald Trump explained the large number of detected cases of coronavirus infection in the country – 1 million – by a well functioning infection testing system. He wrote about it on Wednesday’s Twitter.
“The only reason the U.S. has 1 million coronavirus cases is because our testing system is better than any other country in the world. Other countries lag far behind us in testing, so they have far fewer cases”, – he said.
According to Johns Hopkins University, which carries out calculations based on information from federal and local authorities, the U.S. recorded more than 1 million cases of infection with coronavirus, almost 58 thousand people died. In terms of the number of infected people, the U.S. is significantly ahead of any other country in the world – in Spain, which is second in the number of detected cases, there are only about 232 thousand.
At the same time, the restrictive measures imposed to prevent further spread of the pandemic are severely damaging the United States economy. According to Trump Senior Advisor Kevin Hassett, unemployment could reach 16-20% as early as June. Against that backdrop, the White House master on April 27 recommended that state governors lift sanitary restrictions as soon as possible, but in a way that does not endanger the health of citizens.