Death Toll In Wuhan Raised – Burning Issues – Free PDF Download

• On 17^th April 2020, Hubei Province issued
• “Notice on the Correction of the Number of New Coronary Pneumonia Cases Diagnosed and the Number of Diagnosed Deaths in Wuhan“
• The Notice reported 1,290 additional deathsthat had not been previously counted and reported.
• Thus , bringing the total number of deaths in Wuhan
• from 2,579 to 3,869, an increase of 50%.
• The change also pushes China’s nationwide death toll up by nearly 40%

Reasons for sudden revision

• Wuhan’s epidemic prevention and control headquarters cited several reasons for the missed cases-
• The city’s medical staff were overwhelmed in the early days as infections climbed,
• This lead to late reporting, omissions or mis-reporting.
• Many fatal cases were “mistakenly reported” or missed entirely.
• It also cited insufficient testing and treatment facilities, and said some patients died at home and thus their deaths were not properly reported.
• Data from prisons and detentions centres added.

Doubts over Transparency

• There have long been questions about China’s official figures
• China has come under increasing pressure from Western powers led by the United States, which has raised doubts about Chinese transparency and is probing whether the virus actually originated in a Wuhan laboratory.
• China vs. USA

• Outside one funeral home, trucks shipped in about 2,500 urns on 2 DIFFERENT DAYS, according to Chinese media outlet Caixin.
• There are 8 funeral homes in Wuhan city
• ~ 8*5000 = 40,000 deaths?

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