Lie March 25, 2020 · Press conference · Coronavirus

“We're also doing some very large testings throughout the country. I told you yesterday that, in South Korea -- and this is not a knock in any way because I just spoke with President Moon; we had a very good conversation about numerous other things -- but they've done a very good job on testing, but we now are doing more testing that anybody, by far. We do more in eight days than they do in eight weeks.”

Said
March 25, 2020
Where
News conference
Verdict
Lie, as rated by the Washington Post Fact Checker
Topic
Coronavirus
Repeated
6 times in the Post’s database
Source
Washington Post claims database (claim ID 17717)

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