For weeks, the Trump administration has accused China of covering up the scale of its coronavirus outbreak and extent of its deaths. Today, China has revised its official count, adding 1,300 coronavirus deaths in Wuhan.
A volunteer looks out near a Chinese national flag during a farewell ceremony for the last group of medical workers who came from outside Wuhan to help the city during the coronavirus outbreak in Wuhan in central China's Hubei province on Wednesday.
The revised figures from Wuhan, a city of 11 million people, reflect incorrect reporting, delays and omissions, according to state-run CCTV television. They add 1,290 deaths, bringing the total for the city to 3,869.
At a daily White House briefing on the coronavirus response on Wednesday, Trump was asked about whether China had been forthright in its reporting on the outbreak within its borders. Asked whether he had discussed with Chinese leader Xi Jinping an unsubstantiated theory that the virus could have been accidentally released from a laboratory in Wuhan, Trump answered:"I don't want to discuss what I talked to him about the laboratory, I just don't want to discuss, it's inappropriate right now."
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