Global Pandemic: China says they are Winning the War Against COVID-19, Can We Believe Them?

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🗓️ 25 August 2020

⏱️ 16 minutes

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The Chinese government has been telling its people that they have beaten back COVID-19, but without cooperation with the WHO or outside independent monitors can we believe them? Beijing also says they have been inoculating essential workers since late July. FOX’s Trey Yingst speaks with Dean Cheng, a senior research fellow at the Heritage Foundation, about China's claims they are fighting off the virus while others fear a second wave could hit there. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:14.0	I'm Tyris.
0:15.0	I'm Liz Klayman.
0:17.0	I'm Greg Jarrett, and this is the Fox News rundown.
0:20.0	Tuesday, August 25th, 2020. I'm Trey Yinks. Where the coronavirus outbreak first began,
0:29.0	life has returned to normal. But China still must fight off a second wave and no one knows how to properly
0:34.4	confirm their COVID-19 numbers.
0:36.7	These images are basically China's state-run media saying to the Chinese people, nothing to see here, we've gotten all of this under control.
0:46.5	The problem is that there's almost no way to independently verify any of this.
0:51.8	This is the Fox News rundown, global pandemic.
0:58.4	China has gone 10 days without any local transmission of coronavirus, but is still struggling with
1:04.5	imported cases, though the Chinese Communist Party is likely not being completely
1:08.9	transparent about outbreaks in the country.
1:11.7	Over the next few minutes, you'll get the latest headlines on the
1:14.0	global COVID-19 outbreak and hear from Dean Chang a senior research fellow at the
1:18.6	Heritage Foundation. Starting first in Italy where daily cases have nearly doubled in the past five days according to reports.
1:26.0	The Italians have around 20,000 active cases and are now seeing over 1,200 daily cases.
1:31.0	Officials do not plan to re-enter lockdowns at this point.
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