Lie March 26, 2020 · Press conference · Coronavirus

“So in eight days -- in eight days, we do more testing than [South Korea] did in eight weeks.”

Said
March 26, 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 17934)

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