'I think anyone who's following COVID and its transmission globally will quite easily see that New Zealand's nine cases in a day does not compare to the United States' tens of thousands,' the New Zealand prime minister said.
At a campaign rally on Monday President Donald Trump said that despite New Zealand claiming to have succeeded in wiping out COVID-19, the South Pacific country was in fact in the grip of a"terrible" upsurge in COVID-19 cases.
Speaking to reporters on Tuesday, New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern fired back at Trump, calling his remarks "patently wrong."
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