China revises COVID-19 death toll

Chinese medical workers from Shandong province take part in a ceremony before leaving Wuhan.

Chinese medical workers from Shandong province take part in a ceremony before leaving Wuhan. Source: AAP

The World Health Organization says many countries will likely follow China in revising the number of their deaths after they begin to control the corona virus crisis.


Countries in the world. especially the Western countries has doubted the transparency of China in reporting the number of victims of the pandemic and then China has revised that number, not because of lack of transparency but because of the chaos that occurred when the virus emerged and attacked so many victims in a short period of time.

Wuhan in China's Hubei province, the centre of COVID-19 trapping, has admitted a mistake in counting the number of deaths, now the number of deaths in the city has increased by 50 percent.

W-H-O said Wuhan had been overwhelmed when the virus struck the city in December, and authorities were too busy to ensure every death and infection was properly recorded.

There are several questions about the recording of government infections because they have repeatedly changed their calculation criteria at the height of the crisis.

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