US newspaper says China lied as it moves close to effacing Coronavirus

WASHINGTON, U.S – A national newspaper in the United State, The Washington Examiner has said that nearly 70,000 people died since the onset of the Coronavirus in China, contrary to what authorities in China have made the world to believe.

China has reported 83,974 confirmed cases of Coronavirus, 4, 637 deaths, while 78, 929 have recovered, leaving China with just 408 cases.

In a matter of days, Coronavirus would have been eliminated from China based on statistics from John Hopkins University, Maryland, United States.

But the Washington Examiner reported that all these statistics are far from the truth. According to the newspaper, analysis by the Department of Homeland Security  has concluded that China hid the early spread of the coronavirus so it could hoard medical equipment, keeping it from other countries that would have bought it if they had known of the danger that was coming their way from Wuhan.

According to the newspaper, DHS found, with 95% statistical confidence, that changes to China’s personal protective equipment import and export behavior were highly abnormal and not random and that early warnings from China about the scale of the coronavirus outbreak and its threat of becoming a pandemic could have given other countries time to take actions that would have saved lives.

“It looks like the Chinese government deliberately misled the world so that it could stockpile crucial supplies”, The Washington Examiner said in its editorial, noting that China lied about the virus being capable of transmission between humans.

“It threw whistleblower doctors in prison. It refused to let the World Health Organization and other authorities such as the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention see early data. It stopped tests and had test samples destroyed.

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“It allowed its citizens to travel from Wuhan to other parts of the world, taking the disease with them, and then had the gall to complain when foreign nations (belatedly) restricted travel from China.

“The tyranny continues to restrict international scientific access to Wuhan, and it sells faulty coronavirus tests, masks, and protective equipment across the globe”, the newspaper said, and called on the Trump administration to redouble its work with allies to lay bare the true extent of China’s willful negligence in jeopardizing global health.

“Nearly 70,000 people in this country have been killed by this virus, with many times that number suffering horribly from the disease even though they have survived it. Tens of millions of people have lost their jobs. And the United States is not alone; the virus has exacted a terrible cost throughout the world”, the newspaper said.