Wuhan admits to errors, hikes toll by 50%
18/04/2020 , Agence France-Presse, Wuhan
China’s coronavirus ground-zero city of Wuhan on Friday admitted missteps in tallying its death toll as it abruptly raised the count by 50% following growing world doubts about Chinese transparency.
The U.S. has led the charge in questioning China’s handling of the pandemic and how much information it has really shared with the international community since the virus emerged late last year.
Authorities in Wuhan initially tried to cover up the outbreak, punishing doctors who raised the alarm online in December.
Wuhan’s epidemic control headquarters said in a social media posting on Friday that it had added 1,290 deaths to the tally in the city. That brings the total deaths in the city to 3,869. But the city government only added 325 cases, raising the city’s total number of cases to 50,333.
The change also pushes the nationwide death toll up by nearly 39% to 4,632.
The official toll in the country of 1.4 billion people, however, remains well below the number of fatalities in smaller nations such as Italy and Spain.
18/04/2020 , Agence France-Presse, Wuhan
China’s coronavirus ground-zero city of Wuhan on Friday admitted missteps in tallying its death toll as it abruptly raised the count by 50% following growing world doubts about Chinese transparency.
The U.S. has led the charge in questioning China’s handling of the pandemic and how much information it has really shared with the international community since the virus emerged late last year.
Authorities in Wuhan initially tried to cover up the outbreak, punishing doctors who raised the alarm online in December.
Wuhan’s epidemic control headquarters said in a social media posting on Friday that it had added 1,290 deaths to the tally in the city. That brings the total deaths in the city to 3,869. But the city government only added 325 cases, raising the city’s total number of cases to 50,333.
The change also pushes the nationwide death toll up by nearly 39% to 4,632.
The official toll in the country of 1.4 billion people, however, remains well below the number of fatalities in smaller nations such as Italy and Spain.
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