Biden doesn't want events to be `superspreaders'

Targetting President Donald Trump's trio of big rallies amid the rising COVID case, presidential candidate Joe Biden tells supporters in Pennsylvania that he doesn't want his events to “superspreaders" of the infection.

Washington:Joe Biden tells supporters in Pennsylvania that he misses up-close campaigning, but doesn't want his events to “superspreaders.” That's a barb seemingly aimed at President Donald Trump, who's set to hold a trio of big rallies later Saturday at a time of rising coronavirus cases.

At a drive-by rally in the Philadelphia suburb of Bristol, Biden said: “I don't like the idea of all this distance, but it’s necessary.”

He added, "We don’t want to become superspreaders.”

Trump's events in North Carolina, Ohio and Wisconsin come as the US has hit a daily record of coronavirus cases with more than 83,000 reported infections. The US death toll has grown to nearly 224,00, according to the tally published by Johns Hopkins University. The total U.S. caseload reported Friday was 83,757, topping the 77,362 cases reported on July 16.

Trump said in a tweet said the rise in positive cases is overblown.

A Rose Garden event in late September has been labelled a “superspreader” for the virus. More than two dozen people linked to the White House have contracted COVID-19 since the president’s September 26 event announcing Amy Coney Barrett as his nominee to the Supreme Court.

AP

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