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President Trump says China actually has a “far greater” coronavirus death toll after Chinese authorities modified data from Wuhan, the pandemic’s epicenter.
” China has simply announced a doubling in the variety of their deaths from the Unnoticeable Opponent,” Trump tweeted on Friday. “It is far greater than that and far higher than the U.S., not even close!”
On Friday, Chinese authorities confessed to undercounting deaths in Wuhan. Officials stats were modified upward 50 percent, adding 1,290 deaths to the count, for a total of 3,869
Chinese data is commonly considered undependable due to prevalent under-reporting by regional authorities fearful of penalty for taping accurate figures.
White House coronavirus task force member Dr. Anthony Fauci said Thursday he doesn’t “feel great at all” about Chinese reporting on COVID-19
Photos of mass shipments of funeral urns to Wuhan, where the outbreak emerged in December, underscored doubts about Chinese federal government data.
China has simply announced a doubling in the number of their deaths from the Unnoticeable Enemy. It is far higher than that and far higher than the U.S., not even close!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) April 17, 2020
Trump on Tuesday suspended US funding for the World Health Company, implicating the United Nations body of distributing counterfeit data from China, leaving the world unprepared for the scope of the crisis.
China now acknowledges less than 84,000 domestic cases and about 4,600 overall deaths, according to Johns Hopkins University information.
6 countries report bigger break outs, led by the United States with at least 672,000 cases and almost 34,000 deaths.
