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‘On the light side’: Trump casts doubt on China’s coronavirus figures
US lawmakers accuse Beijing of under-reporting scale of outbreak
Donald Trump has said China’s reported death toll and infections from the coronavirus seem “a little bit on the light side”, as US lawmakers and reportedly members of the intelligence community accused Beijing of intentionally under-reporting the scale of the outbreak.
“The numbers seem to be a little bit on the light side – and I am being nice when I say that – relative to what we witnessed and what was reported,” the US president said at a daily briefing on Wednesday, referring to China’s officially reported figures.
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