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Donald Trump says to bring down Covid-19 testing, faces criticism

According to Trump, 25 million people have been tested for Covid-19 in the US, which is why the total number of confirmed cases in the country is high

Dallas : In this June 11, 2020 photo, President Donald Trump speaks during a roundtable discussion about Transition to Greatness: Restoring, Rebuilding, and Renewing, at Gateway Church Dallas in Dallas | AP/PTI

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The total number of coronavirus cases in US stands at 2,279,879 and a total of 119,969 people have succumbed to the disease so far

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2 min read Last Updated : Jun 22 2020 | 2:01 PM IST

Donald Trump's remark, during his first Presidential campaign in Tulsa, Oklahoma amid the coronavirus pandemic, that he had asked officials to "slow the testing down" has sparked criticism from experts and his own staffers.

"Looking at it as a scoreboard is the wrong way to think about it," The Washington Post quoted Amesh Adalja, an infectious-disease expert at the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security, as saying. "To think of it as something you can manipulate or slow down based on what the numbers look like speaks to a complete misunderstanding of what an infectious-disease response should be."

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