US spy agencies: China covering up coronavirus cases and deaths
by Jerry Dunleavy
| April 01, 2020 01:46 PM
The U.S. intelligence community believes the Chinese Communist Party is covering up the true scale of the coronavirus outbreak inside the country where the deadly COVID-19 pandemic originated.
A classified report said Beijing has underreported total cases and deaths associated with the disease, according to three U.S. officials cited by Bloomberg on Tuesday. One of these unnamed officials said the White House received the report last week.
The Office of the Director of National Intelligence declined to comment, but Sen. Ben Sasse, a member of the Senate Intelligence Committee, responded to the report.
“The claim that the United States has more coronavirus deaths than China is false. Without commenting on any classified information, this much is painfully obvious: The Chinese Communist Party has lied, is lying, and will continue to lie about coronavirus to protect the regime," the Nebraska Republican said. "Beijing’s garbage propaganda shouldn’t be taken seriously by the World Health Organization, by independent journalists, or by the American epidemiologists who are going to beat this terrible virus."
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