
India has done maximum number of tests after the United States, said the White House. The US has carried out a record of 42 million COVID-19 tests followed by India which has carried out 12 million tests, said the White House in a statement.
“With regard to (the coronavirus) testing, we’ve done more than 42 million tests. The second-highest number is 12 million from India. We’re leading the world in testing,” said Kayleigh McEnany, White House’s Press Secretary at a news conference on Thursday.
“We have done more than any country in the world on testing; there’s no doubt about that — 42 million tests. The country with the next highest number is India at 12 million,” said McEnany.
CBS is reporting that in 2009, the Centres for Disease Control and Prevention abruptly advised the states to stop testing for the H1N1 flu and stopped counting individual cases, she said.
McEnany said, “Ron Klain, Vice President Biden’s former Chief of Staff said this: It is “purely a fortuity that (H1N1) isn’t one of the great mass casualty events in American history. It had nothing to do with us doing anything right.” This is former VP Biden’s Chief of Staff. It just had to do with luck.”
“Contrary to that, this President led the world in testing; led the world in ventilators — redistributing ventilators for therapeutics; 13 vaccine candidates — one going into phase three clinical trial. This response has been extraordinary and historic. We didn’t pause testing; the Obama-Biden administration did, and that was a shameful decision,” she added.