Coronavirus- China outbreak city Wuhan raises death toll by 50% - BBC News. Hidden Facts
Coronavirus- China outbreak city Wuhan raises death toll by 50% - BBC News. Hidden Facts<br /><br />The Chinese city of Wuhan, where the coronavirus originated last year, has raised its official Covid-19 death toll by 50%, adding 1,290 fatalities.<br /><br />Wuhan officials attributed the new figure to updated reporting and deaths outside hospitals. China has insisted there was no cover-up.<br /><br />It has been accused of downplaying the severity of its virus outbreak.<br /><br />Wuhan's 11 million residents spent months in strict lockdown conditions, which have only recently been eased.<br /><br />The latest official figures bring the death toll in the city in China's central Hubei province to 3,869, increasing the national total to more than 4,600.<br /><br />China has confirmed nearly 84,000 coronavirus infections, the seventh-highest globally, according to Johns Hopkins University data.