Trump says China secretly has 'far higher' coronavirus death toll
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President Trump says China actually has a “far higher” coronavirus death toll after Chinese officials revised data from Wuhan, the pandemic’s epicenter.“China has just announced a doubling in the number of their deaths from the Invisible Enemy,” Trump tweeted on Friday. Officials statistics were revised upward 50 percent, adding 1,290 deaths to the count, for a total of 3,869.Chinese data is widely considered unreliable due to pervasive under-reporting by local officials fearful of punishment for recording accurate figures.White House coronavirus task force member Dr. Anthony Fauci said Thursday he doesn’t “feel confident 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 government data.China has just announced a doubling in the number of their deaths from the Invisible Enemy.
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