Passengers get off the high-speed train G77 from Wuhan at Shenzhen North Railway Station in Shenzhen, south China's Guangdong Province, April 8, 2020.(Xinhua/Liang Xu)

"For the accusations that China is hiding the numbers, just think about it, we have such a huge population, such a big country, you cannot hide the cases of a very vicious virus, because if you have patients, they are just patients. If people are infected, they're just infected. How can you hide them?" the Chinese ambassador said in an interview.

WASHINGTON, April 12 -- Chinese Ambassador to the United States Cui Tiankai has refuted the accusations by some U.S. politicians and media outlets that China concealed the extent of the COVID-19 outbreak.

"Now let me tell you, some of the things that have been reported in the media here or claimed by politicians here are just not facts, So let me try to give you some facts," Cui said in an interview on April 3 with Ian Bremmer at weekly digital and broadcast show Gzero World, which was aired nationally on Saturday by American Public Television.

"For the accusations that China is hiding the numbers, just think about it, we have such a huge population, such a big country, you cannot hide the cases of a very vicious virus, because if you have patients, they are just patients. If people are infected, they're just infected. How can you hide them?" Cui said.