It’s almost as if China lied

Published April 19, 2020 3:39pm ET



Worried about its global image, China is now trying to cover up its cover-ups.

The Chinese regime has been trying to downplay and conceal the extent of the coronavirus for months, reporting coronavirus numbers that were far below what they should have been and hoping the rest of the world wouldn’t care. Many in the mainstream media fell for this ploy, but nevertheless, global skepticism toward China has rightly continued to grow. So China began revising its numbers, releasing a report last week that raised the death toll in Wuhan, the region where the virus originated, by more than 50%.

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