“We have the best testing programme in the world by far,” he told supporters at an election rally in Nevada, a battleground state. They last spoke in early June and they had discussed Covid-19 then, among a host of other issues. The president, it seems, used an outdated number for India’s testing total when he claimed the US was ahead by 44 million. Trump moved on to other subjects at the rally shortly. But bringing up Modi to endorse his response to the Covid-19 epidemic was perhaps a first and, notably, at an election rally.

Source: Hindustan Times September 13, 2020 05:52 UTC