“The coronavirus "didn’t go to Beijing. It didn’t go to other parts of China" besides Wuhan. "They stopped it cold.”
What FactCheck.org found
China didn't stop the coronavirus from going to Beijing. There have been 594 cases and nine deaths in Beijing, as of June 9.
Their words, from the summary they publish with the rating.
In short
Donald Trump (President of the United States) made this claim around 8 June 2020. FactCheck.org (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 9 June 2020, 1 day later. Its rating was “False”.
Donald Trump has 1,168 checked claims in this archive. Fact-checking organisations rated 663 of them false or fake, 375 misleading or mixed and 13 true.
Where the claim appeared
- whitehouse.govhttps://www.whitehouse.gov/briefings-statements/remarks-president-trump-jobs-numbers-repo…
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