Washington: US President Donald Trump called the the ongoing border row between India-China at eastern Ladakh as a “very nasty situation,” he once again offered to mediate between the two countries saying “if we can do anything we would love to get involved and help.”
“It has been a very nasty situation and we stand ready to help with respect to China and India. If we can do anything we would love to get involved and help. We are talking to both countries about that,” Trump said.
Notably, Trump has offered to mediate between the two nuclear-armed nations in the past as well. Though both India and China had rejected the idea claiming there is no need for a third party to mediate.
When asked if China was bullying India, he answered, “I hope not but they are going more strongly at it than a lot of people even understand.”
Trump slammed China saying it is the country one must be talking about rather than Russia. “China at this point is the nation you should be talking about much more so than Russia because the things that China is doing are far worse. Look at what happened with the China virus, look at what they have done to 188 countries all over the world,” he said.
Trump further said that he “gets along with every country” apart from China as he “did not like what is happening with respect to the pandemic”.
“I do not like it at all. What they have done to this world, this country, Europe and every place else is terrible,” he added.
The ICMR has also listed measures to priortise methods of testing.
“For routine surveillance of containment zones, antigen tests should be first priority for routine surveillance of non-containment zones, RT-PCR tests should be first priority,” the guidelines said.
