Former US treasury secretary Lawrence H Summers praising Pakistan’shandling of the coronavirus pandemic, said that America could have saved inthe neighbourhood of $10 trillion had it followed in its footsteps.

Summers said this as he spoke to *CNN *on the show “Fareed Zakaria GPS”.

“Told Fareed Zakaria on GPS CNN, America’s failure on COVID-19 is almostunimaginable. Heck, if the US had handled the pandemic as well as Pakistan,we would have saved in neighborhood of $10 trillion,” Summers said in atweet.

Commenting on the US coronavirus strategy, he said that the costs of anexpanded testing system are trivial compared to the costs of tens ofthousands of early deaths.