Worldwide, COVID-19 has infected over 2 million people and deaths climbed to 1.44 lakh, as per data from Johns Hopkins University.
Wuhan| the Chinese central city of Wuhan, regarded as the place where novel coronavirus or COVID-19 first emerged, on Friday abruptly increased its toll from the pandemic by 50%, from 2,579 to 3,869.
China admitted that many cases were “mistakenly reported” or missed entirely.
Wuhan had added 1,290 deaths to the tally, which has suffered the vast majority of China’s fatalities from COVID-19, the disease caused by the virus, Wuhan’s epidemic control headquarters said in a social media posting on Friday.
This comes after weeks of scepticism about the reported deaths, as other countries have seen fatalities reach more than 10,000.
The US has accused China of manipulating the figures and questioned China’s handling of the outbreak and how much data it has really shared with the global community after the virus emerged late last year.
Wuhan had also hosted a mass banquet on the occasion of the Lunar New Year for tens of thousands of people, six days before the Chinese government made it public that a pandemic had broken out, AP had reported on Wednesday.
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The new addition makes deaths toll in the Wuhan city 3,869.
But the Chinese city government only added 325 cases, raising Wuhan’s total number of coronavirus cases to 50,333.
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