India not giving accurate Covid death count, dirtying environment: Trump


By Arul Louis

New York, Sep 30 (IANS): US President Donald Trump has said that India does not give a "straight count" on the Covid-19 deaths and is dirtying the environment.

During the presidential debate on Tuesday night with Democratic Party presidential candidate Joe Biden, they both sparred over the extent of the deaths caused by the pandemic.

Biden said that the 200,000 people who died of the coronavirus in America were 20 per cent of the global death toll of 1 million while the US population is only 4 per cent of the world.

Trump shot back, "When you talk about numbers you know how many people die in China? You know how many people die in Russia? You don't know how many people died in India. They don't give you a straight count."

Trump said that the pandemic was China's fault, but Biden tried to deflect China's role wanting to pin the blame for its ravages on Trump.

When climate change and the Paris Climate Agreement, from which Trump withdrew the US came up, he said, "China sends up real dirt into the air. Russia does. India does."

Biden made a threat to countries that will not follow his environmental agenda warning Brazil that if it continues tearing down forests, "You're gonna have significant economic consequences."

The first debate held in Cleveland was about domestic issues and there were no international questions on the agenda set out by Chris Wallace of Fox News, who was the moderator for the debate. The mention of India and the other two were among passing references to foreign countries.

Earlier in his news conferences, he had mentioned India's record of conducting COVID-19 tests as the second-best in the world and only behind the US.

  

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  • Raj, Mangalore

    Wed, Sep 30 2020

    Trump is a truth teller. Trump has exposed the Indian goverment's lies and coverup about the extent of corona virus cases in India. The Indian press is a joke. The Indian press is promoting conspiracy theories about bollywood celebs instead of informing Indians about the dangers facing Indians.

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  • juliana, udupi

    Wed, Sep 30 2020

    Many things are not in control of human beings and one among them is novel corona virus disease. It came without the knowledge of anybody and has to recede on its own as there is no medicine for this disease.

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  • G R PRABHUJI, Mangalore

    Wed, Sep 30 2020

    That's the main character of true Indians. After 2014 all reports are fake. That's why they are surviving . Trump will come know about Indians soon.

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  • Abdul Shereef, Maikala

    Wed, Sep 30 2020

    Very selectively picked headline for the news report.
    I have seen the entire debate, the names of India just flashed for a second and vanished, while here in the news report, an insignificant mention in the debate has become the headline!!!!

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  • John, Mangalore

    Wed, Sep 30 2020

    This President statement seems because,
    All this pandemic because Chinese lied about their corona deaths so to spread it across continents and to ruin world economy to dominate it.

    These Chinese seems to specifically targeted US, Brazil and India, specially US during this election year so more deaths, so their cronies can harp on that, put their puppet there and then control the whole world.

    Biden seems to be the puppet of socialist Russia and communists china following same communists principles preach lies often enough, that people will believe it.

    200000 plus deaths looks real but how many comorbidies, oldies and other deaths marked as corona or forced ventilators on patients, how many deaths in demoncrat states, God only knows.

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  • AM, Mangalore

    Wed, Sep 30 2020

    What kind of friend is this man? When he need something he threaten to his friend and when he want to escape he put his friend in trouble. Better to stay away from this kind of friends. r

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  • SDC, Mangalore

    Wed, Sep 30 2020

    Introduced as My friend, India's friend...

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  • Raj, Kinnigoli

    Wed, Sep 30 2020

    Why our PM friend is talking like this?

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  • John, Mangalore

    Wed, Sep 30 2020

    All this pandemic because Chinese lied about their corona death rate so to spread it across continents and to ruin world economy to dominate it.

    These Chinese and Russians have specifically targeted US, Brazil and India, specially US during this election year so more deaths, so they can harp on that put their puppet there and then control the whole world.

    Biden the puppet of socialist Russia and communists china following same communists principles preach lies often enough, that people will believe it.

    200000 plus deaths in US looks real but how many comorbidies, oldies and other deaths marked as corona or forced ventilators on patients, how many in demon crat controlled states, God only knows.

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  • Mangalurian, Mangaluru

    Wed, Sep 30 2020

    Well...

    ...when it comes to any bad news, India does not have the numbers.

    * Jobs lost
    * SME businesses closed
    * the health workers that died due to Covid
    * and possibly the overall death figure due to Covid.

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  • geoffrey, hat hill

    Wed, Sep 30 2020

    Return gift for Namaste Trump.
    Zor se bolo 'Agli baar Doland sarkar'

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