#Putin claims Russia handled coronavirus better than the US

President Vladimir Putin claimed Russia has handled the coronavirus pandemic better than the United States — knocking President Trump’s leadership during the crisis, according to a report Sunday.

“We are working rather smoothly and emerging from this situation with the coronavirus confidently and, with minimal losses. … But in the (United) States that is not happening,” Putin told state TV.

Putin said Moscow’s response was more coordinated than Washington’s because Russian authorities worked in unity.

“I can’t imagine someone in the (Russian) government or regions saying we are not going to do what the government or president say,” said Putin.

“It seems to me that the problem (in the United States) is that group, in this case party interests, are put above those of society’s as a whole, above the interests of the people.”

Russia, according to Johns Hopkins University’s coronavirus map, has the third-highest reported number of cases in the world, with 528,267.

It’s behind Brazil with 850,514 cases and the US with 2,083,082 cases.

Russia’s official death toll is 6,938, compared with America’s 115,578 — but its tallies have been met with skepticism.

It almost doubled its official fatality numbers for April on Saturday after the World Health Organization questioned how low it seemed, according to the Washington Post.

With Post Wires