Donald Trump’s top trade adviser has suggested China deliberately allowed hundreds of thousands of people infected with coronavirus to leave the country “to seed and spread the virus” abroad.
As the US approached its Fourth of July holiday weekend, more than a dozen states saw record numbers of new cases.
Five more states broke single-day records for newly identified cases on Friday, a day after eight other states saw record high numbers.
On Thursday, the US set yet another single-day record for new cases, with more than 55,000 cases identified, for the sixth time within two weeks.
The president has repeatedly falsely claimed that cases in the US are rising because more tests are being performed.
This week, the president heralded “great news” that the nation’s death rate from coronavirus “is down” despite the surge in new cases.
Arizona’s governor Doug Ducey is also requiring residents to wear masks in public after the state saw a single-day spike of 4,000 new cases. »