Trump sparked uproar in New Zealand when he told a crowd in Minnesota the South Pacific state of 5 million people was in the grasp of a"dreadful" upsurge in COVID-19 instances, having succeeded in removing the disease.
Thirteen new diseases have been confirmed in New Zealand on Tuesday, carrying the nation's total number of instances since the pandemic started to 1,293, with 22 deaths. This contrasts with the U.S. tally of over 5.2 million instances and 170,000 deaths.
"You see what is happening in New Zealand?" Trump said.
"They conquer it, they conquer it, it was just like fronthe fronte they conquer it... since they wanted to show me something.
"The dilemma is... big spike in New Zealand, you know that it's terrible. We do not need that."
Ardern stated there wasn't any contrast between New Zealand's couple of new cases each day along with also the"tens of thousands" reported from the USA.
"I believe anybody who is following COVID and its own transmission internationally will rather readily see that New Zealand's nine instances in a day doesn't compare to the United States' tens of thousands, and actually doesn't compare to the majority of nations on the planet," she told reporters.
"Clearly it is patently incorrect," she said of Trump's remarks.
"We're still one of those best-performing nations on earth in regards to COVID... our employees are concentrated on keeping it away "
New Zealand's passing rate per 100,000 individuals, at roughly 0.44, is among the cheapest in the world as a result of rigorous lockdowns enforced early in the pandemic. The USA has a passing rate of 5.21 per 100,000, among the greatest on earth.
New Zealand has fared much better than many nations throughout the ordeal, but an abrupt resurgence of COVID-19 a week at Auckland motivated the authorities to expand a lockdown for its town's 1.7 million taxpayers till Aug. 26, while social distancing principles are set up in different cities and towns.
The source of the most recent outbreak remains unknown, but police before on Tuesday ruled out the chance that it came out of frozen food items or cargo.
"Sounds clear today that the chance has been ruled from this analysis," Director General of Health Ashley Bloomfield told reporters.
New Zealanders celebrated if the nation passed 100 times with no community transmission before this month.
"Every other country on earth has undergone resua resurgence travelled longer than most, our epidemic is surely not as important as what we're seeing in Vietnam, at Hong Kong, in South Korea or in Australia," she told state broadcaster TVNZ.