{"id":203420,"date":"2020-04-17T18:22:00","date_gmt":"2020-04-17T18:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/english\/not-even-close-trump-says-china-virus-cases-far-higher-than-admitted\/"},"modified":"2020-04-17T18:22:00","modified_gmt":"2020-04-17T18:22:00","slug":"not-even-close-trump-says-china-virus-cases-far-higher-than-admitted","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/english\/not-even-close-trump-says-china-virus-cases-far-higher-than-admitted\/","title":{"rendered":"&#171;Not Even Close&#187;: Trump Says China Virus Cases &#171;Far Higher&#187; Than Admitted"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"caps\">Washington: <\/p>\n<p>US President Donald Trump on Friday said China&#039;s real death toll from coronavirus was &quot;far higher,&quot; even after officials issued a new count sharply raising the number of dead in Wuhan, where the pandemic began.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;China has just announced a doubling in the number of their deaths from the Invisible Enemy. It is far higher than that and far higher than the U.S., not even close!&quot; Trump tweeted.<\/p>\n<p>He appeared to be referring to Wuhan&#039;s abrupt increase in the number of deaths by 50 percent, though not &quot;doubling,&quot; as Trump claimed.<\/p>\n<p>The new toll followed growing world doubts about Chinese transparency.<\/p>\n<p>Officials said they had added 1,290 deaths to the tally in the city, which has suffered the vast majority of China&#039;s officially recognized fatalities from COVID-19, the disease caused by the virus.<\/p>\n<p> Comments<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Washington: US President Donald Trump on Friday said China&#039;s real death toll from coronavirus was &quot;far higher,&quot; even after officials issued a new count sharply raising the number of dead<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-203420","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203420","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=203420"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203420\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=203420"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=203420"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=203420"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}