China, who has been defending its role against the allegations around coronavirus spread ever since the onset of the pandemic, is in
for trouble as a leaked document from China revealed that it had tampered the early COVID-19 data and delayed the test results documentation by three weeks, reported CNN on Monday.

According to a video by CNN, a whistle blower, who worked in the Chinese health care system, provided 117 pages long internal documents from the Hubei Provincial Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), which reflects extensive mishandling of data related to the COVID-19 pandemic by China.

The documents cover a period between October 2019 and April this year, a critical time period in which the virus floated from
China and turned into a worldwide pandemic, which according to John Hopkins
University had infected more than 63.2 million people and led to over 1.47
million deaths so far.

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The
document marked as ‘confidential’ also unveils evidence of clear missteps and institutional errors as we know it, during the critical moments in the early phase of the pandemic.

The report was also verified by CNN through six experts.

While
it is not the first time when China’s deliberate attempt to push the virus and
burying evidence was communicated in a report, but this sure is the first one
to prove that China not only  lied about the number of cases being reported, but failed to inform the world about a potential threat despite reasonable doubt.

The report
however does not establish China’s intent to withhold document but insinuate that
what experts and health officials believed and revealed in public data were incongruous
to each other.

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Meanwhile,
China ever since the onset of COVID-19 pandemic has been repeatedly rebutting claims by the US and other such nations alleging the virus was not created and
spread from Wuhan.

In
May, the World Health Assembly (WHA), the governing body of the 194-member
states of the WHO, also approved a resolution to set up an independent inquiry
to conduct an “impartial, independent and comprehensive evaluation” of the
international response as well as that of WHO.