Trump criticizes Covid lockdowns and falsely claims US 'doing very well'

President says US has done ‘as well as any nation’ as country passes 4.7m cases, more than a quarter of global total

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Donald Trump used his White House coronavirus press conference on Monday to repeat his opposition to lockdowns as a means of bringing the contagion under control, claiming falsely that under his leadership the US has done “as well as any nation”.

On a day that the US had surpassed 4.7m confirmed cases of infection – more than a quarter of the global total – Trump tried to deflect criticism of his administration’s handling of the pandemic on to other countries.

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