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On Friday, Wuhan City, China’s coronavirus zero zone, abruptly increased its death toll by 50 percent.
Highlight
- The number of deaths abruptly increased by 50 percent to a total of 3,869
- Many “wrongly reported” cases lost entirely, China admitted
- The coronavirus originated in the Chinese city of Wuhan in December
Wuhan, China:
Wuhan City, China’s coronavirus zero zone, on Friday increased its death toll by 50 percent abruptly, saying many fatal cases were “mistakenly reported” or lost entirely in an admission that occurs amid of growing global doubts about Chinese transparency.
The city government said in a social media post that it had added 1,290 deaths to the count in Wuhan, where the global pandemic emerged and that it has suffered the vast majority of China’s deaths from COVID-19, the disease caused by the virus.
That brings the total number of deaths in the city to 3,869.
The change also increases the number of deaths across the country by almost 39 percent to 4,632, according to official national data released on Friday.
China has been under increasing pressure on the coronavirus pandemic from the western powers led by the United States, which has raised doubts about Chinese transparency and is investigating whether the virus actually originated in a laboratory in Wuhan.
China has said the virus emerged from a Wuhan food market whose merchandise included exotic wild animals sold for human consumption.
Wuhan’s epidemic prevention and control headquarters cited several reasons for the lost cases, including the fact that the city’s medical staff were overwhelmed in the first few days as infections increased, prompting “belated reports , omissions or erroneous reports “.
He also cited insufficient testing and treatment facilities, saying that some patients died at home, and therefore their deaths were not adequately reported.
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