Chinese epicentre Wuhan raises number of virus dead by 1,290

[Kuru]

Chinese epicentre Wuhan raises number of virus dead by 1,290
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April 17, 2020
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In this file photo from February 1, funeral home workers remove the body of a person suspected to have died from the coronavirus outbreak from a residential building in Wuhan. — AP
The central Chinese city of Wuhan has raised its number of Covid-19 fatalities by 1,290, with state media saying on Friday the undercount had been due to the insufficient admission capabilities at overwhelmed medical facilities at the peak of the outbreak.

Wuhan's revised death toll of 3,869 is the most in China. Numbers of total cases in the city of 11 million were also raised by 325 to 50,333, accounting for about two thirds of China's total 82,367 announced cases.

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The official Xinhua News Agency quoted an unidentified official with Wuhan's epidemic and prevention and control headquarters as saying that during the early stages of the outbreak — due to the insufficiency in admission and treatment capability — a few medical institutions failed to connect with the disease prevention and control system in time, while hospitals were overloaded and medics were overwhelmed with patients.

“As a result, belated, missed and mistaken reporting occurred," the official was quoted as saying.

"The new figures were compiled through a comparison of data from Wuhan's epidemic prevention and control big data system, the city funeral service system, the municipal hospital authority's information system, and the nucleic acid test system to remove double counted cases and fill in missed cases," the official was quoted as saying.

"New death cases were added because non-hospitalised deaths had not been registered at the disease control information system and some confirmed cases had been reported late or not been reported at all by some medical institutions," the official said.

Questions have long swirled around the accuracy of China's case reporting, with Wuhan in particular going several days in January without reporting new cases or deaths.

That has led to accusations that Chinese officials were seeking to minimise the impact of the outbreak and wasting opportunities to bring it under control in a shorter time.

 

[Kuru]

https://www.dawn.com/news/1549943/chinese-epicentre-wuhan-raises-number-of-virus-dead-by-1290

Seems they finally realised that keeping the numbers lower than a country like Belgium isnt gonna be believable after all! So they came up with this random number and expect the world minus minions to believe it. Not buying!

 

[TruthHurtz]

https://www.dawn.com/news/1549943/chinese-epicentre-wuhan-raises-number-of-virus-dead-by-1290

Seems they finally realised that keeping the numbers lower than a country like Belgium isnt gonna be believable after all! So they came up with this random number and expect the world minus minions to believe it. Not buying!

Stupid comment, you have no idea how difficult it is to keep track of deaths during a pandemic. You have to consider excess deaths as a result of the quarantine, what if someone with Coronavirus killed themselves during the epidemic? Did they die of Covid-19 or suicide? What about all the elderly who passed away in their homes? You would have to check on millions of people to get a true count, which takes time.

 

[vi-va]

Stupid comment, you have no idea how difficult it is to keep track of deaths during a pandemic. You have to consider excess deaths as a result of the quarantine, what if someone with Coronavirus killed themselves during the epidemic? Did they die of Covid-19 or suicide? What about all the elderly who passed away in their homes? You would have to check on millions of people to get a true count, which takes time.

German did NOT count death directly because of Coronavirus.
US did NOT count those old men and women death fully in nursing home.
It's pandemic, only China counting every single death as postmortem after pandemic, the rest of world are busy dealing with patience.
It's the transparency of Chinese government, it's responsible government who dare not to reveal the death numbers.
China has done with Coronavius, so we have bandwidth to discover un-calculated death during pandemic.

Let those fools high, delusional.

Those dead one can NOT speak, the west can cover their death toll as many as they want.

 

[Kuru]

Stupid comment, you have no idea how difficult it is to keep track of deaths during a pandemic.

It seems to be difficult only for the Chinese government, heh? Other countries like Italy or the US have some magic wand to count higher deaths?

Moreover, why did the chinese government not declare it earlier that they are 'still counting deaths' and the number they declared earlier is incomplete?

Is the data released today by CPC is final at all? Or are they still counting?

German did NOT count death directly because of Coronavirus.
US did NOT count those old men and women death fully in nursing home.
It's pandemic, only China counting every single death as postmortem after pandemic, the rest of world are busy dealing with patience.
It's the transparency of Chinese government, it's responsible government who dare not to reveal the death numbers.
China has done with Coronavius, so we have bandwidth to discover un-calculated death during pandemic.

Let those fools high, delusional.

Those dead one can NOT speak, the west can cover their death toll as many as they want.

Are you aware that sarcastic comment isnt really allowed? Or are you a false flag Chinese trying to make fun of China?

 

[TruthHurtz]

It seems to be difficult only for the Chinese government, heh? Other countries like Italy or the US have some magic wand to count higher deaths?

Moreover, why did the chinese government not declare it earlier that they are 'still counting deaths' and the number they declared earlier is incomplete?

Is the data released today by CPC is final at all? Or are they still counting?




Are you aware that sarcastic comment isnt really allowed? Or are you a false flag Chinese trying to make fun of China?

Italy and the US counted higher deaths because they had a higher number of people infected. If they had taken proper measures since January, they would not be suffering as they are now.

Moreover, why did the chinese government not declare it earlier that they are 'still counting deaths' and the number they declared earlier is incomplete?

Because they ARE still counting deaths, the outbreak hasn't ended yet in China. A country of 1.4 billion people, inherently very difficult to classify who died of the virus or other causes.

 

[vi-va]

Italy and the US counted higher deaths because they had a higher number of people infected. If they had taken proper measures since January, they would not be suffering as they are now.



Because they ARE still counting deaths, the outbreak hasn't ended yet in China. A country of 1.4 billion people, inherently very difficult to classify who died of the virus or other causes.

If PDF members can think rationally like you, we have less meaningless debate, and can discuss something in depth.

 

[8888888888888]

Probably trying to uncover the hiding of information by incompetence local officials sweeping everything under the rug. I wish more scapegoats could be found.

 

[Globenim]

New York corrects their deathtoll upwards with thousands of uncounted virus deaths 3 days earlier without any explanation where they come from - silence

China identifies thousand deaths outside of hospitals as virus deaths after rounds of post mortem test - trolls screaming Chinese reverse coverup and China hiding virus deaths

 

[lcloo]

It is natural that during the time when Wuhan city was over-whelmed by the virus spread, many cases of deaths outside hospital were not reported or misreported as many hospital staffs were over-worked, with some worked non-stop for 24 hours. Verification of cause of deaths outside hospital was not a priority when effort to save sick people took top spot. Body count is always done after the battles are over.

Rechecking on death records is normal when the worst is over, and discrepancies are normal. The credible thing is China did not hide the discrepancies.

Same thing happened on figures of deaths and other statistics in H1N1 flu deaths, Vietnam war deaths, Korean war deaths, New York 911 deaths.

The same will happen in COVID-19 deaths figures in US, Spain, Italy, UK, India, Pakistan, Brazil etc.

 

[striver44]

Remember kids ,Never trust propaganda numbers.

 

[Ultima Thule]

Remember kids ,Never trust propaganda numbers.

Go lick the boots of your Masters who broke your country, got some shame

 

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That a WHOPPING 50% increase in deaths!

 

[kankan326]

That a WHOPPING 50% increase in deaths!

On the small number basis, 50% is not a big deal.

 

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On the small number basis, 50% is not a big deal.

It's not so much about the numbers, which however small or large is still tragic, it's more about the transparency. What else aren't they disclosing? Can other countries trust China now? This will have consequences.