NYS governor slams White House's COVID-19 response as chief of staff says U.S. not to control pandemic


By Xia Lin
  • World
  • Monday, 26 Oct 2020

NEW YORK, Oct. 25 (Xinhua) -- New York State Governor Andrew Cuomo said on Sunday that COVID-19 can be defeated, while questioning the White House's inaction as its Chief of Staff Mark Meadows said that the country is "not going to control the pandemic."

"Americans don't surrender. And they didn't even put up a fight and what we learned in New York was if you put up a fight you would have won because New York won. Other states won also," the governor was quoted as saying in a government release.

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