Trump doubts Chinese figures

Washington, April 2: President Donald Trump cast doubt on the accuracy of official Chinese figures on its covid-19 outbreak after US lawmakers, citing an intelligence report, accused Beijing of a cover up.

“How do we know” if they are accurate, Trump asked at a press conference. “Their numbers seem to be a little bit on the light side.” Trump insisted that “the relationship with China’s a good one” and that he remained close to President Xi Jinping. However, controversy around Beijing’s transparency has strained ties, adding to bad feelings triggered by a conspiracy theory in China that the US military was to blame for the virus.

Republicans in Congress, pointing to a report by Bloomberg citing US intelligence, expressed outrage that Beijing apparently misled the international community on China’s infections and deaths that began in late 2019 in the city of Wuhan.

US wages all-out war President Donald Trump assured the nation that his administration was waging an all-out war against the Covid-19 epidemic that has claimed over 48,000 lives and infected 950,000 others across the world. “America continues to wage all-out war to defeat the virus this horrible, horrible virus. You see how terrible it is, especially when you look at the numbers from yesterday,” he told reporters.

$2trillion infra plan He has also proposed a

Mobile morgues set up New York is setting up mobile morgues to deal with corpses as hospitals and funeral homes begin to be overwhelmed by the growing number of casualties. massive $2 trillion infrastructure plan, along with several other measures like corporate deductibility for restaurants and entertainment facilities to stimulate the American economy ravaged by the pandemic.— Agencies

● ACCORDING TO Johns Hopkins Covid-19 Resource Center, the number of Americans to have been infected by Covid-19 stood at over 216,000, and 5,137 others lost their lives from the deadly disease by Thursday morning.