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US President Donald Trump said it is a badge of honor that the US has more cases of the coronavirus than any other country. He was speaking at a cabinet meeting on Tuesday afternoon. President put the high figure down to the volume of Covid-19 tests being carried out. He said, “When we have a lot of cases, I don’t look at that as a bad thing. I look at that in a certain respect as being a good thing because it means our testing is much better. So I view it as a badge of honor, really. This was a great tribute to the testing and all of the work that a lot of professionals have done”.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said the US has conducted 11.28 million tests for the coronavirus. The CDC also confirmed that there were a total of 1.59 million confirmed Covid-19 cases in the US and almost 14% of those tested. At least 91,000 American deaths have been officially recorded as directly caused by the deadly coronavirus. President Trump brought up the topic of testing in his response to a question about whether he was considering a travel ban on Latin America, specifically Brazil which now has the third-highest number of cases in the world after the US and Russia.

The officials initially responded that Trump administration was considering a more strict travel ban. President Trump said, “We hope that we’re not going to have a problem. The governor of Florida is doing very, very well testing, in particular Florida, because a big majority come into Florida. Brazil has gone more or less herd, and they’re having problems. I worry about everything, I don’t want people coming in here and infecting our people. I don’t want people over there sick either”. Trump also attacked a female reporter of CBS News on Tuesday, asking about a national plan to reopen the United States.