US President Donald Trump said the number of Coronavirus infections announced by China appeared to be "somewhat reduced", while his National Security Adviser said that Washington had no way to verify the accuracy of the data supplied by Beijing.
The remarks came after a prominent Republican member of Congress raised doubts about the data supplied by China, and Bloomberg News reported that a secret report by the American Intelligence concluded that Beijing had lied about the outcome it had published for the victims of the emerging corona virus on its soil, confirming that the true number of deaths and injuries resulting from the epidemic. Much higher.
Trump said in a daily briefing to the Corona Virus Action Team that he had not received an intelligence report on China's data, but added, "The numbers seem a little bit soft compared to what we have seen and what we are announcing."
"As far as whether the figures are accurate or not, I am not an accountant from China."
Robert O'Brien, Trump's national security adviser, told the same news conference that Washington was "not in a position to confirm the numbers coming from China."
Earlier, a congressional foreign affairs committee member, Michael McCall, a Republican, accused China of hiding the real numbers. The Bloomberg report quoted an unidentified American official as saying that a classified report received by the White House last week concluded that China's announcement of the numbers of injuries and deaths was intentionally incomplete. In Beijing, the Chinese Foreign Ministry said yesterday that US officials are making "rude" comments, casting doubt on China's reports of coronavirus cases in the country. Chinese Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Hua Chunying said during a press briefing
The United States should stop politicizing a health issue, and instead focus on the safety of its people.