Donald Trump has actually declared 99% of coronavirus cases are “totally harmless” after a surge of infections in theUS
In a speech at the White House on America’s Self-reliance Day, the US president insisted his method to take on COVID-19 was “moving along well” in spite of some states reporting record increases in cases.
He had earlier branded the infection a “terrible plague from China” and cautioned Beijing “must be held accountable” for its spread around the world.
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Mr Trump insisted his method to take on COVID-19 is ‘moving along well’
Mr Trump stated the US has actually now evaluated nearly 40 million people for coronavirus, and added: “By so doing, we show cases – 99% of which are absolutely safe.
” Results that no other nation can show since no nation has screening that we have, not in terms of the numbers or in terms of the quality.”
Mr Trump stated the US is producing dress, masks and surgical equipment which utilized to be “almost exclusively made in foreign lands, in particular China where ironically this virus and others came from”.
“China’s secrecy, deceptions and cover-up allowed it to spread all over the world – 189 countries,” he added.
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Mr Trump called COVID-19 ‘this awful afflict from China’
“China must be held fully accountable.”
In a video message posted on the White House’s Twitter account prior to his speech, Mr Trump declared the US had actually been “doing better than any country had ever done in history… and then we got hit with this terrible plague from China”.
“Now we’re getting close to fighting our way out of it,” he stated.
“We’re on the way to a tremendous victory.”
More than 2.8 million coronavirus cases have actually been tape-recorded in the US, and almost 130,000 people in the nation have actually passed away with the infection, according to Johns Hopkins University.
Florida and Texas both reported record everyday boosts in validated COVID-19 cases on Saturday – with almost 20,000 extra infections integrated.
Throughout the first 4 days of July alone, an overall of 14 states posted a day-to-day record boost in the number of people checking favorable for COVID-19
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The US president and first woman saw a military flypast at the event
Florida’s validated coronavirus cases increased by a record 11,458 on Saturday, the state’s health department stated.
It marked the second time in 3 days that its number of cases leapt by more than 10,000 in 24 hours.
In Texas, on the other hand, the number of brand-new cases increased by a record 8,258 on Saturday.
North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Alaska, Missouri, Idaho and Alabama all signed up brand-new everyday highs on Friday.
Coronavirus in Texas ‘heading to pure hell’
Regardless of the increasing number of infections, the typical everyday US death toll has slowly declined in current weeks, showing the growing percentage of favorable tests amongst more youthful, much healthier people less vulnerable to serious disease when contaminated.
The World Health Organisation (WHO) revealed on Saturday a record rise in global coronavirus cases over a 24- hour duration.
An overall of 212,326 infections were tape-recorded, with the greatest rise in cases can be found in the US, Brazil and India.
In overall, 10.9 million cases have actually been tape-recorded internationally and 523,011 people have actually passed away, the WHO stated.
