Trump says injecting sanitiser comment was sarcastic as Covid-19 deaths in US surpasses 50,000

US President Donald Trumps on April 24 sought to clarify comments he made a day earlier about the possibility of injecting disinfectant into people’s bodies to fight Covid-19. Trump said his comments were made sarcastically, but they prompted two of the biggest disinfectant makers to issue statements telling people not to ingest or inject their products.