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Donald Trump during Friday’s campaign rally in Minnesota.
With only days to go until the election, the corona virus is a hot topic of conversation for presidential candidates Donald Trump and Joe Biden.
They are both critical of how the pandemic was handled, but for entirely different reasons.
During a campaign rally in the Midwest on Friday, Trump attacked measures being put in place to slow the spread of the infection.
“It’s a small thing, but a terrible thing,” he said of the Minnesota state’s decision not to allow more than 250 people to attend its campaign rally, citing the ongoing pandemic. Reports the Reuters news agency.
Nearly 5,700 Americans with confirmed COVID-19 have died in the past seven days. On average, around 800 people died from COVID-19 per day in October, according to a compilation by The Washington Post.
Over the past week, the daily figure has risen slightly: on Wednesday and Thursday, more than 1,000 people died a day, the newspaper writes.
Trump also criticizes the reliability of the infection figures during his campaign.
– Our doctors get more money if someone dies from covid. Do you know it well? I mean, our doctors are very smart, so what they’re doing is saying, “I’m sorry, everyone dies from covid,” the president said during a recent campaign rally in Michigan, CNN reports.
Trump’s opponent, Democrat Joe Biden, has repeatedly criticized the Trump administration’s handling of the pandemic during his campaign.
“Donald Trump has surrendered and waved the white flag,” Biden said of handling the virus during a campaign meeting in Des Moines, according to Reuters.
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