A White House official told Fox News’ Bret Baier that Communist China had “miscalculated” and “underreported” the real extent of COVID-19 fatalities, as a way to cover-up and downplay the real impact of the outbreak.

According to Fox News’ report, “A Trump administration official tells Fox News they estimate the PRC has miscalculated and underreported the true tally nationwide by at least a factor of 50.” While the White House official claimed that the real number of COVID-19 fatalities remain unknown, the administration official admits that the information which came from the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) listing 80,000 confirmed cases, and 4,000 deaths were “not even remotely close.”

The official continued that according to intelligence sources, recent data from Wuhan funeral homes were “overwhelmed by the volume of new corpses and plagued by a shortage of urns to hold virus victims’ remains.” While the funeral homes refused to confirm the US satellite images, they agreed that the massive death toll was a possibility. In fact, evidence showed that one funeral home had been continuously operating within a 13-day period, leading experts to believe that it had as much as 45,000 corpses.

In another report from The American Enterprise Institute (AEI), the researchers agreed that that communist country had “deliberately” withheld the information and that they estimated a minimum of 2.9 million cases outside the Hubei province, with a possible death toll reaching to more than 100,000. The AEI cited that, “Mortality remains sadly unsettled, but China’s size would obscure even a high rate.”

The problem with China’s transparency had also pushed the British government to no longer recognize the number of the Chinese death toll, claiming that its communist leaders are only continuing to spread “fake data.” In a newspaper interview with the Conservative Party chairman of the foreign affairs select committee, Tom Tugendhat claimed that Chinese data are both unreliable and “possibly false.”

To counteract such measures, the US had already launched an investigation on one of the labs in which they suspect the virus was leaked. In fact, the said laboratory, Wuhan Institute of Virology (‘WIV’), was one of the sub-recipients of a taxpayer-funded grant from The National Institutes of Health (NIH) entitled “Understanding the Risk of Bat Coronavirus Emergency.” The grant came through the EcoHealth Alliance, Inc.

In an exclusive letter obtained by Breitbart News, Dr. Michael Lauer, the NIH’s deputy director for extramural research, wrote members of the EcoHealth Alliance, Inc. that they would subject WIV to an investigation, and to cease any funding for Wuhan laboratory.

To get even, the Chinese foreign ministry had launched another smear campaign. On Monday, the CCP launched a Twitter thread that questions the US’s allegedly failed response.

In the tweet, the Chinese government raised speculations against increasing doubts over Trump’s handling of the coronavirus, as well as question the integrity of the administration’s information. Moreover, the MFA even had the audacity to demand transparency for the American people and the international community.