China is rewriting the facts about coronavirus to suit its own narrative | Carrie Gracie
by Carrie Gracie from Science | The Guardian on (#566MX)
Our Panorama programme shows how Xi Jinping's government has tried to hide the truth about the spread of coronavirus
China has been here before. During the Sars crisis in 2002 and 2003 it hid cases, censored doctors and withheld information from the world for four months. Nearly 800 people died.
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