Trump said that the pandemic was China's fault, but Biden tried to deflect China's role wanting to pin the blame for its ravages on Trump.
US President Donald Trump during the presidential debate on Tuesday said that India does not give a "straight count" on the COVID-19 deaths.
During the presidential debate between him and Democratic Party presidential candidate Joe Biden, both candidates sparred on the extent of the deaths caused by the pandemic.
Biden said that the 200,000 people who died of the coronavirus were 20 percent of the global death toll of 1 million while the US population is only 4 percent of the world.
To this, Trump shot back, saying, "When you talk about numbers you know how many people died in China? Do you know how many people died in Russia? You don't know how many people died in India. They don't give you a straight count."
Trump said that the pandemic was China's fault, but Biden tried to deflect China's role wanting to pin the blame for its ravages on Trump.
The first debate was held in Cleveland and was about domestic issues and there were no international questions on the agenda set out by Chris Wallace of Fox News, who was the moderator for the debate. The mention of India and the two other countries brought a passing reference to foreign countries.
Earlier in his news conferences, Donald Trump had mentioned India's record of conducting COVID-19 tests as the second-best in the world and only behind the US.
The debate was due to be divided into six segments: the records of Trump and Biden, the Supreme Court, the pandemic, the economy, election integrity, and "race and violence" in US cities.
One planned topic of the debate was the battle around Trump’s nomination of Amy Coney Barrett to the Supreme Court as a replacement for Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, who died September 18.
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