China hid virus' severity to hoard supplies: US

Chinese leaders "intentionally concealed the severity" of the pandemic from the world in early Jan. A US intelligence report says China held off informing the WHO that the coronavirus "was a contagion" for much of January so it could order medical supplies from abroad — and that its imports of face masks and surgical gowns and gloves increased sharply.

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