(CNN) US intelligence has gathered information showing that officials in Wuhan, China, kept senior officials in Beijing in the dark for weeks about the virus that resulted in the Covid-19 pandemic, according to US officials familiar with the intelligence. While the US continues to collect information about the novel coronavirus outbreak in China, the intelligence contains indisputable evidence of the local cover-up attempt, the officials say. Local governance in Wuhan includes both state officials and Chinese Communist Party officials, and US intelligence shows that even within the party, officials did not freely share information with their counterparts in Beijing, one official said. It is not clear when US intelligence officials assessed that Beijing was fully aware of the situation. "I don't think Wuhan officials hid it from Beijing," this official told CNN.

Source: CNN August 21, 2020 20:21 UTC