President Donald Trump casts doubt over the official Chinese figures on the number of casualties due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
New Delhi| United States President Donald Trump doubts the official Chinese figures on the number of casualties in their country due to the COVID-19 pandemic, claiming that the deaths were more than that of the US.
President’s comments come following another 1,300 casualties, 50% hike from before, was added to the official tally in the city of Wuhan, where the outbreak emerged. The update puts China’s overall death toll to over 4,600.
Donald Trump told reporters at a White House news conference on Saturday, “We are not number one; China is number one just so you understand.”
“It’s not even close,” President added.
When highly-developed healthcare systems of the UK, France, Belgium, Italy and Spain had high casualty rates, it was O.33 in China, according to Trump.
The president reiterated that the actual number was much more than the official Chinese death toll figures, which he called “unrealistic”.
“You know it, I know it and they know it, but you don’t want to report it. Why?” he asked. “You will have to explain that. Someday I will explain it.”
He also emphasised that on a per-capita basis, the death rate in the United States was far lower than other nations of Western Europe.
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However, US President Trump has submitted no proof that the Chinese were responsible for the pandemic, but did state that a United States investigation into the pandemic is ongoing.
Trump on Thursday evening stated plans to resume the US economy, letting each state’s governor “to take a phased deliberate approach to reopen their individual states.”
The US has made it through the worst of new coronavirus cases recent data suggest said President Trump on Wednesday, as he seeks to reopen the pandemic-hit economy.
Trump said in the White House Rose Garden at the daily coronavirus task force briefing that the data suggests that the US has passed the peak of new cases. Hoping that it will continue Trump hoped for making great progress.
New York alone records for nearly half the country’s deaths from the highly infectious novel coronavirus.
The United States tops in the world in the number of confirmed COVID-19 cases, with over 720,000 infections and over 37,000 fatalities.
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