Canada has handled coronavirus outbreak better than US, Trudeau says [View all]
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Wed 8 Jul 2020 13.13 EDT Last modified on Wed 8 Jul 2020 13.37 EDT
Canada has handled the coronavirus outbreak better than many of its allies, including the United States, said Justin Trudeau on Wednesday, in a rare public comment on the faltering effort to contain the pandemic in the US.
Canada – with a population a tenth of the size of the United States – has so far recorded 8,711 deaths and 106,167 cases and Trudeau said the situation was stabilizing, although some hotspots remained.
In contrast, the United States on Wednesday surpassed more than 3m cases and 131,000 deaths. Authorities have reported alarming upswings of daily case loads in roughly two dozen states over the past two weeks.
“We were able to control the virus better than many of our allies, particularly including our neighbor,” Trudeau told a briefing, saying this would help efforts to restart the economy.
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https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/jul/08/canada-trudeau-trump-coronavirus-covid-19
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