At least 50% more people died in China’s coronavirus epicenter of Wuhan than previously counted.
China has reported its biggest economic decline since the 1970s as it fought the coronavirus in the first quarter of the year.
The official New China News Agency quoted an unidentified official with Wuhan’s epidemic 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.
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 minimize the impact of the outbreak and wasting opportunities to bring it under control in a shorter time.
A group of eight medical workers, including a doctor who later died of the virus, was even threatened by police for trying to alert people about the disease over social media.
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