China's actual Covid-19 death toll much higher, way ahead of the US: Trump

According to Trump, when highly-developed healthcare systems of the UK, France, Belgium, Italy and Spain had high fatality rates, it was 0.33 in China

Expressing his doubts over the official Chinese figures on the number of deaths due to coronavirus, US President Donald Trump said fatalities in the Asian country were way ahead of the US.

Trump's comments come two days after another 1,300 fatalities were added to the official count in the city of Wuhan, where the outbreak started. The revision puts China's overall death toll to more than 4,600.

"We are not number one; China is number one just so you understand," said Trump at a White House news conference on Saturday. "They are way ahead of us in terms of death.