TULSA: US President Donald Trump said Saturday he was encouraging coronavirus response workers to slow down testing , arguing that increased tests lead to more cases being discovered.The president has claimed falsely on several occasions that surges of Covid-19 in several states can be explained by increased diagnostic tests.At his first rally since the outbreak forced nationwide shutdowns in March, Trump told the crowd in Tulsa, Oklahoma that testing was a "double-edged sword. "The US -- which has more deaths and cases than any other country -- has carried out around 27 million coronavirus tests, placing it 26th in the world, per capita. "Here is the bad part: When you do testing to that extent, you are going to find more people, you will find more cases," Trump argued. "So I said 'slow the testing down.' They test and they test.

Source: Economic Times June 21, 2020 10:15 UTC