The Chinese foreign ministry denied any cover-up of the coronavirus outbreak after Wuhan raised its death toll by 50%
FILE PHOTO: A worker in a protective suit collects a swab from a construction worker for nucleic acid test in Wuhan, Hubei province, the epicentre of the novel coronavirus disease outbreak in China, April 7, 2020. China Daily via REUTERS/File Photo
The revision follows widespread speculation that Wuhan’s death toll was significantly higher than reported. Suspicion that China has not been transparent about the outbreak has risen in recent days as death tolls mount in many countries, including the United States, with President Donald Trump on Wednesday expressing scepticism about China’s previously declared death figure of about 3,000.
Wuhan’s total number of cases was revised up by 325, suggesting that some of the new deaths had been recorded as cases but not confirmed as fatalities, taking the total number of cases in the city of 11 million people to 50,333, or about 60% of mainland China’s total. Doctors and government officials in Wuhan have been repeatedly questioned about the accuracy of the death toll by journalists on government-arranged trips.Some of those officials acknowledged that people may have died without being counted in the chaotic early days of the outbreak, before testing was widely available.
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