China has been accused of a major coronavirus coverup after it emerged their real COVID-19 death toll could be up to 40 times higher than previously admitted.
Senior government scientists are believed to have warned Boris Johnson that Beijing's propaganda machine may have downplayed its figures "by a factor of 15 to 40 times".
A Downing Street source told the Mail on Sunday: "There is a disgusting disinformation campaign going on and it is unacceptable. "They [the Chinese government] know they have got this badly wrong and rather than owning it they are spreading lies." The warning comes after a Wuhan funeral home raised fresh doubts over the scale of the pandemic by ordering 5,000 cremation urns – despite an official death toll of less