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China Media Calls Coronavirus a 'U.S. Epidemic,' Warns of Risk to World
BY DAVID BRENNAN ON 7/5/20 AT 9:36 AM EDT
A Chinese state-controlled newspaper has hit out at President Donald Trump's administration for its mishandling of the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic, describing the disease as a "U.S. epidemic" and warning that the administration's failure poses a threat to the rest of the world.
Global Times, owned by the People's Daily newspaper which is the official publication of the Chinese Communist Party, said in an editorial published Friday that that the U.S. outbreak is "completely out of control."
The U.S. recorded more than 55,000 new cases of COVID-19 on Thursday, a new record for the pandemic which began in the central Chinese city of Wuhan in December. U.S. cases are skyrocketing amid a fractured national response, hamstrung by politicization of response measures plus a confused White House approach.
National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease Dr. Anthony Fauci said last week that the U.S. may soon be recording 100,000 new cases each day if the current trend is not reversed. His warning came even as some states continued to relax lockdown measures introduced to slow the spread.
On Saturday, Trump said his administration had "made a lot of progress" controlling the pandemic, even as the seven-day average of U.S. cases set a record for the 26th straight day, The Washington Post reported. More than 129,000 Americans have so far died from COVID-19 with 2.8 million confirmed cases, according to Johns Hopkins University.
https://www.newsweek.com/china-media-coronavirus-us-epidemic-warns-risk-world-1515491
BY DAVID BRENNAN ON 7/5/20 AT 9:36 AM EDT
A Chinese state-controlled newspaper has hit out at President Donald Trump's administration for its mishandling of the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic, describing the disease as a "U.S. epidemic" and warning that the administration's failure poses a threat to the rest of the world.
Global Times, owned by the People's Daily newspaper which is the official publication of the Chinese Communist Party, said in an editorial published Friday that that the U.S. outbreak is "completely out of control."
The U.S. recorded more than 55,000 new cases of COVID-19 on Thursday, a new record for the pandemic which began in the central Chinese city of Wuhan in December. U.S. cases are skyrocketing amid a fractured national response, hamstrung by politicization of response measures plus a confused White House approach.
National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease Dr. Anthony Fauci said last week that the U.S. may soon be recording 100,000 new cases each day if the current trend is not reversed. His warning came even as some states continued to relax lockdown measures introduced to slow the spread.
On Saturday, Trump said his administration had "made a lot of progress" controlling the pandemic, even as the seven-day average of U.S. cases set a record for the 26th straight day, The Washington Post reported. More than 129,000 Americans have so far died from COVID-19 with 2.8 million confirmed cases, according to Johns Hopkins University.
https://www.newsweek.com/china-media-coronavirus-us-epidemic-warns-risk-world-1515491
