• The US intelligence community has determined that the Chinese government concealed the extent of its coronavirus outbreak and gave false statistics to other countries, Bloomberg News reported, citing three US officials.

• Officials transmitted a classified report of their findings to the White House last week.

• Bloomberg described its sources as saying that the report’s main conclusion was that China’s public reporting of coronavirus cases was «intentionally incomplete» and that its numbers were fake.

• China was the epicenter of the novel coronavirus outbreak until last week, when the US’s number of cases surpassed China’s.

• US and other Western officials have repeatedly expressed skepticism about China’s numbers. Residents of Wuhan, where the outbreak originated, have also publicly doubted the government’s reporting.

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The US intelligence community has reportedly concluded that China intentionally misrepresented its coronavirus numbers