Is China telling the truth about its virus stats?

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Today, the US overtook China for the world’s highest number of COVID-19 infections. But experts have cast doubt on some of these figures.

The country has been reporting a downward trend in new coronavirus cases since last month, while Wuhan – the epicentre of the outbreak – has now recorded a straight week of zero new cases.It’s a phenomenal outcome for a country that just two months ago was in a full-blown crisis, with millions in quarantine, a rapidly rising death toll and an economy threatened by millions of job losses.

“I certainly don’t believe the Chinese numbers, but it’s more about what the Chinese Government is doing than the actual numbers.” “New cases of COVID-19 have slowed dramatically in China, but some fear that once the country fully eases its control measures, the virus could start circulating again,” it said.

Earlier this week, Wuhan’s health commission published a Q&A explaining that patients who are asymptomatic are isolated, and only if they begin to show symptoms are they designated as confirmed and included in the data. The Chinese Government has had an ongoing credibility problem with its own citizens since the outbreak unfolded.

Authorities actively suppressed information at the virus’ outset, and silenced those who attempted to speak out about it.

 

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Time will tell, time will tell. But be aware, we are all in this together, none of the countries can go back to normal before every other countries are also virus free.

That is only true if China reported legit numbers

Well yeah.

Chinese figures are not accurate.

US is using Chinese kits now and 20000 cases in two days. Does it mean 20000 cases are only 30% of the total. No wonder WHO said US is pandemic center

US didn’t test Coronavirus until recent, they don’t test doesn’t mean there were no cases. Because of not testing/ diagnosed in time. Americans are spreading the virus everywhere. It is all Trump’s faults.

Neither of them are telling the truth

China is bullshit.

The only one not telling the truth is the USA it will have a lot more unreported cases then any other country in the world

No. China lied, their number are inaccurate, test kits are 30% reliable and they are missing 14 million mobile numbers too...

Believing chinese lies is what caused this crisis.

That's only if you actually believe the CCP

Only because China has been telling bullshit stories from the beginning!!

Our thought and prayers are with the people affected by this virus

I’d say China lying about stats given government there.

I like how everyone is saying China is understating their numbers (which they likely are), then how come all these countries didn’t implement any drastic measures to stop the spreading before the virus got to them? Remember back in early Feb, not many cases are outside China?

World Health Organisation (WHO) must be naive because they believed the data that comes out of China from day 1. That’s why the world is in this situation.

They’re obviously lying but I love how people think countries like the US aren’t as well. The director of Ohio’s department of health thinks that over 100k are infected in the state alone and yet that’s the official figure for the whole country?

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Stay at home... Wear Mask & Wash your hands regularly... let's beat this Virus together... most important thing is the safety... why we so much bother about what number China reports... take care of yourself 👍🙏

And just how would we know about the true numbers from China

Why is this even a question! da

No they are not. I would not trust any info that’s released. It’s their government spin machine at work!

Anyone with two functioning brain cells would be highly skeptical of the Chinese figures. You don’t need to be an expert to know totalitarian, communist regimes lie.

China lied people died. If you think China is telling the truth you are crazy.

The US numbers are probably about as accurate as the Chinese numbers.

Actual question, 'Does China ever tell the truth?'

Of course China didn’t tell the truth.

well Trumps Figures are so not your Numbers.... who am i to argue with a trillionaire to a billionaire Let's review this objectively

And this is why......

China could be lying. But to what magnitude? The US hasn't hit its peak yet...

Mind our own business first. How many more infected cases are not found from the docking cruise ships?😡

Yeah because China is trustworthy.

Experts? Haven't we all been in doubt about those figures for some time now?

If anyone thinks China numbers are even remotely close they are kidding themselves. Maybe the question should be why 21 million mobile phone services were disconnected in Feb when they need one for everything.

China couldn't lie straight in bed

Stanford biophysicist and Nobel laureate Michael Levitt said this week: “The real situation is not as nearly as terrible as they make it out to be. You need to think of corona like a severe flu. It is four to eight times as strong as a common flu'

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