US President Donald Trump has said in an interview that the US has had the lowest mortality rate during the pandemic, a claim that is not true.
The country's more than 140,000 deaths linked to Covid-19 put it among the top 10 highest mortality rates, according to data collected by the Johns Hopkins University.
Trump made the statements in a contentious interview on Fox News, where he also claimed that his country was "the envy of the world" on testing.
WATCH: President Trump on the current state of the virus.
— FoxNewsSunday (@FoxNewsSunday) July 19, 2020
"When you talk about mortality rates, I think it's the opposite. I think we have one of the lowest mortality rates in the world."
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Over the past day, the US recorded almost 64,000 new infections. It now has 3,768,056 confirmed cases, by far the highest number worldwide.
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