With 191,000 Americans dead, Trump admits in bombshell tapes he knew COVID-19 was deadly but deliberately downplayed it in public while blaming WHO and China for concealing the threat

Simon Ateba( Chief White House Correspondent )

Simon Ateba is Chief White House Correspondent for Today News Africa. Simon covers President Joe Biden, Vice President Kamala Harris, the U.S. government, the United Nations, the International Monetary Fund, the World Bank and other financial and international institutions in Washington D.C. and New York City.

Nearly 191,000 Americans have died from the novel coronavirus, according to the latest data from Johns Hopkins University, even as President Donald Trump admitted in bombshell tapes made public on Wednesday that he knew as far back as January and February that COVID-19 was deadly but he deliberately downplayed it while he was blaming the World Health Organization and China for hiding the seriousness of the threat from him.