Wuhan and Hubei Province officials tried to hide coronavirus information from Chinaࢀ™s central leadership, US intelligence says

Coronavirus News US intelligence officials claim that local officials in China kept the devastation caused by the coronavirus in its earliest days away from the broader Chinese government for weeks, slowing the nationࢀ™s ability to respond to the virus before it began to spread. The intelligence report, detailed in a New York Times story, concluded that city officials in Wuhan and in Hubei Province , where the virus first emerged, attempted to hide the information from the central Chinese government. The findings lend credence to reports from news organisations at the time and to assessments by experts on the Chinese…