NEW DELHI, Sep 14: The United States president Donald Trump is claimed to have received huge accolades from the prime minister Narendra Modi for doing “a great job” in Coronavirus testing in his country.
Even while attacking his Democratic opponent for alleged mishandling of the swine flu epidemic during the Barrack Obama administration, Trump told an election rally in Reno, Nevada, that the US handling of Corona testing was much larger and better than many big countries.
He claimed that Modi praised him for “doing a great job in Corona testing and slammed Joe Biden for being a complete disaster in handling the swine flu during the previous administration.
“By far, we’ve tested more people than India, than many, many big countries put together. India is second (in coronavirus testing after the US). We’re 44 million tests ahead of India. They have 1.5 billion people. And Prime Minister Modi calls me and says, what a job you’ve done with testing,” Trump said.
Trump is currently making a swing of some of the key states in the West Coast and has been spending a considerable amount of time in Nevada. The president said Modi’s comment on testing being done by the US needed to be explained to the media which was after him “over handling of the COVID-19 pandemic.”
“I said explain that to these dishonest people (media people) back (at the election rally). Biden’s record demonstrates that if he had been in charge, when the China virus arrived, hundreds of thousands of more Americans would have died. As vice president, he presided over the worst and the weakest and the slowest economic recovery, since the great depression,” Trump said.
Trump said it was the most pathetic recovery, since the depression. “No state was hit harder by Biden’s failure than Nevada. This is not the guy you want,” he said.
Trump said he had spent the last four years bringing jobs back to America, securing borders, rebuilding the military and standing up to China, like never before.
“Nobody had ever stood up to China like we have stood up to China and you haven’t seen the last of it,” he said.
(Manas Dasgupta)
