Corona virus: China adjusts death toll in Wuhan, announces 1,290 additional deaths

Chinese media reported that officials in Wuhan, where the Corona epidemic originated, revised the death toll from the virus, increasing by 50 percent.

Chinese authorities have been criticized for weeks at home and abroad due to doubts about the reliability of the number of victims announced.

The new figures are reported to report an increase in deaths of 1,290 people, bringing the total number to around 4,000.

The China Daily newspaper blamed Wuhan municipal authorities that the late arrival of reports and inaccuracies led to the declaration of fewer victims.

The reports confirmed that officials were not part of the inaccuracy of the initial reports.

Wuhan, with its 11 million residents, has gone through months of total closings that continued even recently. China has been under great western pressure, as the figures announced by the authorities in China have been questioned.

A laboratory in Wuhan was suspected to have been the source of the virus, which has spread worldwide.

But China said a food market in Wuhan that sold animals and birds was a source of the spread of the virus.

Authorities in Wuhan attributed the inaccuracy of initial reports on the number of victims to pressure on health authorities in the early days of the crisis that led to the delay in announcing the actual numbers or announcing the numbers. inaccurate.

Authorities said some patients had died in their homes and that no reports of their cases were available.