US President Donald Trump has falsely claimed that the United States conducted more testing for Covid-19 than all other countries combined, and suggested that the administration of his predecessor Barack Obama left behind “bad, broken tests”.
According to AFP, figures show that of the more than 200 countries, territories and areas affected by the novel coronavirus pandemic, it only takes the cumulative number of tests in five to overtake that of the United States.
And Covid-19 only emerged in 2019, meaning that contrary to Trump’s suggestion, testing for the disease did not exist when Obama left office nearly three years earlier, AFP reports.
