U.S. intelligence officials say that China underreported both the number of cases and the death toll the country suffered from the coronavirus outbreak, according to a report published Wednesday by Bloomberg.
Three unnamed intelligence officials confirmed the information to the news outlet. One official said that their findings were delivered to the White House in a classified report last week. Two of the officials said the report came to the conclusion that China’s numbers about the virus are fake.
The coronavirus outbreak originated in Wuhan, China, this past December. So far, the country has reported just over 82,000 cases and 3,193 deaths, according to data from Johns Hopkins University.
