China made a terrible mistake or it was incompetence: Trump

TIL Desk/World/Washington/ The spread of the deadly coronavirus across the globe from China was either a terrible mistake on the part of the Chinese or probably it was incompetence, US President Donald Trump said on Thursday. “It (coronavirus) could have been stopped at the point. It could have been stopped right at the source.

 It would have been easy to do, but something happened. Something happened,” he told reporters in the Oval Office of the White House. “Either they made a terrible mistake — probably it was incompetence. Somebody was stupid and they did not do the job that they should have done. It is too bad,” the president said in response to a question.

More than 2,64,000 people have died of COVID-19 globally and 37 lakh tested positive for the disease. In the US alone, more than 76,000 Americans have died and 12 lakh people tested positive for coronavirus. The deadly virus has spread to over 180 countries, Trump pointed out.