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Trump Claims China Had Thousands More Virus Deaths Than Reported

  • He says the country ‘lost tens of thousands of people’
  • Trump doesn’t provide evidence to back up his claims
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Donald Trump

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President Donald Trump asserted that thousands more people have died from the coronavirus in China than the Beijing government has acknowledged, without citing any evidence.

“They lost tens of thousands of people,” Trump said in an interview with Fox News’s Laura Ingraham that was broadcast on Tuesday night. “They lost more than any other country, they just don’t report it.”