WASHINGTON (BLOOMBERG) - China has concealed the extent of the coronavirus outbreak in its country, under-reporting both total cases and deaths it's suffered from the disease, the US intelligence community concluded in a classified report to the White House, according to three US officials.. Read more at straitstimes.com.
WASHINGTON - China has concealed the extent of the coronavirus outbreak in its country, under-reporting both total cases and deaths it's suffered from the disease, the US intelligence community concluded in a classified report to the White House, according to three US officials.
That compares to more than 189,000 cases and more than 4,000 deaths in the US, which has the largest publicly reported outbreak in the world. "What appears evident now is that long before the world learned in December that China was dealing with this, and maybe as much as a month earlier than that, that the outbreak was real in China."
Stacks of thousands of urns outside funeral homes in Hubei province have driven public doubt in Beijing's reporting.Enhancing Beijing's role in the pandemic could be politically helpful to President Donald Trump, who has sought to shift blame for the US outbreak away from his administration's delays in achieving widespread testing for the virus and mobilising greater production of supplies such as face masks and hospital ventilators.
Deborah Birx, the State Department immunologist advising the White House on its response to the outbreak, said on Tuesday that China's public reporting influenced assumptions elsewhere in the world about the nature of the virus.
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