President Trump claimed on Friday that China was minimizing the number of deaths it has suffered from the coronavirus, disputing figures that showed the United States had suffered more fatalities from the disease.

According to a reputable coronavirus tracking tool compiled by the Johns Hopkins University, there have been more than 36,000 deaths in the United States from COVID-19, the respiratory disease caused by the coronavirus. The number of reported deaths in China, where the pandemic originated in December 2019, currently stands at 4,632.

According to Trump, however, those figures are incorrect.

“We don’t have the-most-in-the-world deaths,” Trump said during Friday’s briefing of the White House coronavirus task force. “The most in the world has to be China,” he added, reprising an accusation he made earlier in the week.

“It’s a massive country,” he went on. “It’s gone through a tremendous problem with this, a tremendous problem. And they must have the most.”

The president did not offer evidence to back up that assertion, but his argument is at least partially bolstered by China’s admission on Friday that it had undercounted the number of deaths in Wuhan, the city in central China where the outbreak appears to have begun in a so-called wet market. It raised the number of deaths there by 1,290, bringing the reported total to 3,869.

For skeptics of Beijing’s authoritarian regime, that lone admission is but a hint of the actual coronavirus statistics in China, whose population stands at 1.4 billion. Although Wuhan and surrounding areas were locked down once authorities grasped the severity of the disease, the rapidity with which the coronavirus spreads makes it likely that it did damage beyond what the official numbers indicate.

“And that’s only in Wuhan. They’re not talking about outside of Wuhan,” Trump said, in reference to Friday’s correction. He deemed China’s alleged dishonesty “a sad state of affairs.”

Trump also entertained — though did not endorse — the theory that the virus did not originate in a wet market but, rather, was accidentally released from a Wuhan laboratory with lax biosecurity standards.

“We’re looking at it,” Trump said of that theory. “A lot of people are looking at it.”

Source: http://skipogist.com/china-has-more-coronavirus-deaths-than-the-u-s-says-trump/

It's true.....but quantitatively unproven for now.

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NwaNimo1:
ok

Yea

NwaNimo1:
It's true.....but unproven.

you want prove?

Wuhan case has already been proven...that the death is over 3k .
we are waiting for new discoveries about other places
that's how they misled the world with wrong information

Wuhan case has already been proven...that the death is over 3k .
we are waiting for new discoveries about other places
that's how they misled the world with wrong information

Skipogist:
you want prove?

Not really......but mobile phone subscriptions dropped by over 20 million in 3 months.

Probably means nothing?

Arguing this won't help matters, let all hands be on deck to provide a final solution.

Is it obsession we'll call this or what?

What is with Trump and China.

Trump adopting APC style of leadership.

Why is Trump after the numbers of death in China?

flokii:
Is it obsession we'll call this or what?

What is with Trump and China.

I'm surprised you are asking this question.

Is it just Trump that has issues with China? Or are you not aware of the species of human beings that kept you at home for the past 3 weeks?

China has issues with the rest of the world, not just Trump. And if US wants to take on China, they have the backing of other countries.

Chinese are the most wicked set of mammals ever existed on the green planet.

Simplyleo:

I'm surprised you are asking this question.

It has to do with US-China Trade war, ownership of 5G and race to retain world power status..

The way Trump is going about it is what is surprising.

Dah 1 no join me ...

Simplyleo:
[s]
I'm surprised you are asking this question.

Is it just Trump that has issues with China? Or are you not aware of the species of human beings that kept you at home for the past 3 weeks?

China has issues with the rest of the world, not just Trump. And if US wants to take on China, they have the backing of other countries.

Chinese are the most wicked set of mammals ever existed on the green planet.[/s]

Nope,China has issues only with trump and like-minded small minds.
Far worse plagues haved emerged before from different countries including this same US.Why on Earth would put the blame on a Chinese man that the disease first emerged in their country
If by most evil people "ever" then Europeans in their history are undisputedly the most evil people ever.

You vote for a clown, you get a circus. That's all there is to say about this man-child

Obviously they did.....their government is being economical with the truth.

hargbolahan01:
Wuhan case has already been proven...that the death is over 3k .

we are waiting for new discoveries about other places

that's how they misled the world with wrong information

That was January 14th
By January 31 it had been confirmed , and Wuhan placed on lockdown

Trump was busy calling it a flu , saying it would go away ...that it was not serious....all this are on video ....when China closes Wuhan USA had only one case ...just one

Trump failed big time ... anyone who says China didn't give enough warning is just stupid

China is a terrible country and if you have worked in a Chinese company in Nigeria before, you will know chinese are generally wicked inhumane people.

I just hope this pandemic will make the world see China for who they truly are. They are deeply into slavery and I just hope they don't take over Nigeria in the nearest future.

As for me, I know China has over, 3 million cases
And 500k Deaths!!


They can keep hiding it, but that's the Truth,

If countries with less than 50millilon people can be having over 100k cases, Now imagine China With over 1.4 billion people claiming they only have 80k cases, how is that possible??


Lol jokers!!

mrvitalis:

That was January 14th
By January 31 it had been confirmed , and Wuhan placed on lockdown

Trump was busy calling it a flu , saying it would go away ...that it was not serious....all this are on video ....when China closes Wuhan USA had only one case ...just one

Trump failed big time ... anyone who says China didn't give enough warning is just stupid

then why did they misled the world in the first place...and why did they even say asymptomatic person can't transfer it in February

hargbolahan01:
then why did they misled the world in the first place...and why did they even say asymptomatic person can't transfer it in February

Can u not read or you can't comprehend which one ?

tatatar:

Nope,China has issues only with trump and like-minded small minds.
Far worse plagues haved emerged before from different countries including this same US.Why on Earth would put the blame on a Chinese man that the disease first emerged in their country
If by most evil people "ever" then Europeans in their history are undisputedly the most evil people ever.

this is not blaming them that the virus emerged in their country but how they misled the world with wrong information

and besides who tell you small countries are going against China

Japan, Germany and co who taking action..are they small countries

only small countries are supporting China