Trump's comments come two days after another 1,300 fatalities were added to the official count in the city of Wuhan, where the outbreak started. The revision puts China''s overall death toll to more than 4,600.
Trump said that the actual number was much
more than the official Chinese death toll figures.
Washington: President
Donald Trump has expressed his doubts over the official Chinese figures on the
number of deaths in their country due to the novel coronavirus pandemic,
claiming that the fatalities were way ahead of the US.
Trump's
comments come two days after another 1,300 fatalities were added to the
official count in the city of Wuhan, where the outbreak started. The revision
puts China''s overall death toll to more than 4,600.
"We
are not number one; China is number one just so you understand," Trump
told reporters at a White House news conference on Saturday. "They are way
ahead of us in terms of death. It''s not even close."
According
to Trump, when highly-developed healthcare systems of the UK, France, Belgium,
Italy and Spain had high fatality rates, it was O.33 in China.
The
president asserted that the actual number was much more than the official
Chinese death toll figures, which he said were "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
highlighted that on a per-capita basis, the mortality rate in the US was far
lower than other nations of Western Europe.
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