Washington:
Kamala Harris, who has been nominated as Democrat vice presidential candidate, hit out at US President Donald Trump as she acknowledged his administration “minimised the seriousness” of the novel coronavirus pandemic.
“From the beginning of this pandemic, he has known as it a hoax. He has muzzled most of the people effectively being consultants – he has minimised the seriousness of it. If he had listened to the scientists and the consultants, he would have understood the gravity of it,” Ms Harris knowledgeable CNN.
Trump beforehand promised that the US would come out with a vaccine “by the tip of this 12 months if not sooner” to which, Kamala Harris responded, “I really feel we’ve got now found that ever since this pandemic started, that there’s little or no that we’ll perception what comes out of Donald Trump’s mouth. I would perception the phrases of public effectively being consultants and scientists and by no means of Donald Trump.”
She extra criticised the US President for making the virus a partisan concern stating that “the virus might care a lot much less who was voted inside the elections.”
“We have a President of america who made this a partisan concern. The virus might care a lot much less who you voted for inside the last election or who you intend to vote for inside the subsequent election,” the Democratic Vice Presidential candidate acknowledged.
As per the newest exchange, US – the worst affected nation by the COVID-19 pandemic – has 6,270,950 situations and 188,810 deaths due to the coronavirus, consistent with Johns Hopkins School.