Doing serious probe against China, may ask for heavy compensation: Trump

After the US, Europe has been the worst hit by the virus. In India, mainly because of the early and aggressive preventive measures, the fatalities have remained low at 886 and infections at 28,000

The United States is doing a "very serious" investigation against China, President Donald Trump said, indicating his administration is looking at a lot more money as compensation from Beijing than euro 130 billion being sought by Germany.

"Germany is looking at things and we're looking at things and we're talking about a lot more money than Germany is talking about," Trump told reporters at his White House news conference on Monday.

The deadly virus, which originated in China in mid-November has so far killed more than 200,000 people and infected over 3 million globally. The largest number of them are