The Prime Minister of New Zealand, Jacinda Ardern is not very pleased with President Trump throwing wrong claims about New Zealand’s handling of the coronavirus outburst.
During his election rally in Minnesota on Monday, Trump told his supporters that New Zealand’s way of stemming the virus has been “terrible” and it would never work with the USA.
To answer all those who have held up New Zealand as an ideal example of the virus-control strategy and are critical of Trump’s management of the virus, Trump said, "You see what is going on in New Zealand. They beat it, they beat it” - according to Trump, the media made it a “front-page news” because they wanted to show everyone that he was wrong. He added on to say that New Zealand is going through a “big surge” in the number of coronavirus cases.
President Trump made these claims after the Pacific nation reported 70 active cases. Apparently, the leader of New Zealand couldn’t take Trump’s exaggeration of the country’s COVID situation, so she decided to respond to Trump openly. Ardern, in fact, made it New Zealand vs. the United States for the best virus-control strategy.
The Prime Minister said that there is no comparison between nine cases a day of New Zealand and the United States’ tens of thousands. Ardern adjudged Trump’s remarks to be “patently wrong."
While New Zealand is among the most successful COVID-control countries, the United States is, by far, the hardest-hit nation with over 5 million confirmed cases. There has been a world of difference in strategies adopted by each nation for the containment of the virus, at the same time, their demographics, as well as economics, are also poles apart.
In a lot of ways, the two nations are incomparable, but the woes of coronavirus have been such that - Trump has been questioned about almost everything related to the virus. Over the last few days, the number of cases in States has come down significantly from about 76000 cases a day on July 17 to nearly 37000 cases a day on August 17 - but some regions still continue to see the surge in the threats. The global battle with the pandemic is going, all the nations are finding ways to keep its citizens secure and content be it New Zealand or the United States.
It doesn’t strike as the most ideal situation where global leaders are literally squabbling over ‘who did it best’ instead of joining hands to find the solution that can benefit humanity today and tomorrow.