White House 'disappointed' in China's virus transparency

“We are a little disappointed that we haven’t been invited in and we’re a little disappointed in the lack of transparency coming from the Chinese.”

In this file photo taken on January 29, 2020 Larry Kudlow, Director of the National Economic Council, speaks during a television interview in the Brady Press Briefing Room of the White House in Washington, DC. The United States feels let down by a lack of transparency from China over the coronavirus, COVID-19 outbreak, a senior White House official said February 13, 2020.

Trump on Thursday again praised his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping for his government’s response to the outbreak, which has officially killed 1,367 people and infected nearly 60,000 since December. “We’re more than willing to work with the UN WHO on this and they won’t let us. I don’t know what their motives are. I do know that apparently more and more people are suffering over there.”

China had been praised by the WHO for its handling of the outbreak, in contrast to the way it concealed the extent of the deadly SARS virus epidemic in 2002-2003.But the government has faced continued skepticism among the global public. Criticism intensified after the death of a doctor who had tried to raise the alarm about the outbreak in December but was silenced by authorities.

“I think they’ve handled it professionally and I think they’re extremely capable and I think President Xi is extremely capable,” he said. “The April date is very, very important, because if that’s the case, if heat does in fact kill, that’s when it starts getting hot and this virus reacts very poorly to heat and dies,” Trump said.

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