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Trump says India, China will have more Covid-19 cases with more tests

India has so far conducted over 4 million tests, according to the health ministry; Trump says number in US is 20 million

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FILE PIC: US President Donald Trump at The White House | Photo: AP

BS Web TeamAgencies Washington DC
US President Donald Trump on Friday said that countries like India and China would have much more coronavirus (Covid-19) cases than America if they conduct more tests. Trump, in his remarks at Puritan Medical Products in Maine, 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 on Friday.

With the biggest-ever jump of 9,887 new cases and 294 deaths in the past 24 hours, the Covid-19 tally in India reached 2,36,657 on Saturday, a Health Ministry

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