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“If it was a mistake, then a mistake is a mistake. But if they were consciously responsible, then of course there must be consequences“He defended, without adding what the consequences could be.
The US president also said that the Chinese are “ashamed” and that the question now is whether what happened to the new coronavirus was “a mistake that got out of control or something deliberate.” “There is a huge difference between these two hypotheses,” he said.
“We are talking about a number of lives that no one has seen since 1917,” he added, and also praised the actions taken by the United States in terms of confinement.
Government investigates laboratory in Wuhan
Donald Trump took advantage of the White House press conference to announce that His government is investigating a Chinese virology laboratory located in Wuhan, the city where the new coronavirus originated..
This week Fox News reported that the laboratory has likely developed the virus as part of China’s efforts to demonstrate its ability to identify and combat these types of infectious agents.
Similar theories have been put forward since the start of the pandemic, which is why, in February, the Wuhan Virology Institute came to deny the rumors and clarify that the virus was not artificially produced or escaped from any of its laboratories.
“Unrealistic” data
During the press conference, Donald Trump interrupted Deborah Birx, the head of the White House to coordinate the response to the Covid-19 outbreak, when he showed a comparative table on the number of deaths in various countries.
“Does anyone believe in these numbers?” Asked the president., referring to the total deaths in China and Iran. This Sunday, China reported only 16 new cases of Covid-19, the lowest number in more than a month.
Deborah Birx also said she doubts these data, explaining that the number of deaths per 100,000 people in China is much lower than in other countries, including major European countries and the United States.
The responsible He called the Chinese data “unrealistic” and argued that this Asian country has a “moral obligation” to provide credible information.. Birx, on the other hand, praised European countries that alerted the United States to the severity of the virus.
North America, with more than 760 thousand cases of infection, and Europe, with more than one million, are precisely the places most affected by Covid-19.
Spain is the European country with the highest number of cases, almost 192 thousand, followed by Italy, France, Germany and the United Kingdom. Portugal is the ninth most affected country in Europe.
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