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Jakarta, CNBC Indonesia – The study report of the China Center for Disease Control (CDC) states that if the cases of the new corona virus that causes Covid-19 in the city of Wuhan, Hubei province, are probably 10 times higher than the official figure .
About 4.4% of the city’s 11 million residents had developed antibodies to the virus that causes Covid-19 in April, according to the CDC report. This correlates with some 480,000 infections in Wuhan in April, nearly 10 times the official count to date of 50,000 cases in the city where Covid-19 was first discovered.
The discrepancies revealed by the CDC data may “suggest the potential for underreporting due to the chaos of late January and early February, when large numbers of people were not screened or accurately screened for Covid-19,” he said. Huang Yanzhong, Senior Global Health Partner on the Council. on Foreign Relations (CFR), he told AFP.
Meanwhile, Qin Ying, a serology expert at the CDC, said the data discrepancy doesn’t just happen in China.
“Several countries have published similar serological surveys and … in most cases, the number of people with coronavirus antibodies is several times higher than the number of confirmed cases,” Qin said. “So this kind of difference is a widespread phenomenon.”
The CDC added that only 0.44% of the population in central Hubei province outside of Wuhan showed antibodies to the virus. It showed that the 77-day closure of the city had helped prevent the spread of disease.
The findings of a survey of more than 34,000 people nationwide that was conducted in April were only released on Monday evening (12/28/2020).
China does not include asymptomatic cases in its official count, which could also explain the difference between the total confirmed cases and the actual number infected.
China has also faced a barrage of criticism at home and abroad for its initial handling of the virus, including attempts to silence whistleblowers and not report any cases for days in January 2020.
Even resident journalist Zhang Zhan was jailed for four years for reporting on conditions inside Wuhan during the peak of the Covid-19 outbreak.
Now China has a total number of cases that reaches 87,027 with 4,634 deaths, according to data from the National Health Commission.
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