‘How do we know’: US President Trump casts doubt on Chinese coronavirus figuresworldUpdated: Apr 02, 2020 06:44 ISTPresident Donald Trump cast doubt Wednesday on the accuracy of official Chinese figures on its coronavirus outbreak after US lawmakers, citing an intelligence report, accused Beijing of a cover up. “How do we know” if they are accurate, Trump asked at a press conference. China has publicly reported 82,361 confirmed cases and 3,316 deaths as of Wednesday, according to a rolling tracker by Johns Hopkins University. That compares to 206,207 cases and 4,542 deaths in the United States, the country with the world’s largest reported outbreak. Republican Senator Ben Sasse attacked Beijing’s numbers as “garbage propaganda.”“The claim that the United States has more coronavirus deaths than China is false,” Sasse said in a statement.

Source: Hindustan Times April 02, 2020 01:18 UTC