mo4ch:>China’s Wuhan death toll spikes by 50% as authorities report 1,290 ‘delayed & omitted’ fatalities | Mo4ch News
The Chinese city of Wuhan – ground zero for the coronavirus pandemic – has revised its fatality count, increasing the total by just shy of 1,300 deaths, which officials say went unreported due to “delays” and “omissions.”Authorities in Wuhan added another 1,290 deaths to the city’s death toll on Friday, putting the overall figures at 50,333 infections and 3,869 fatalities in the virus’ first epicenter.The revision was necessary to “address incorrect reporting, delays and omissions of cases,” city officials said, according to Reuters, with the new numbers increasing Wuhan’s death tally by some 50 percent.“In the early stage of the epidemic, due to insufficient capacity for admission and treatment, a small number of medical institutions failed to connect with the disease prevention and control information system in a timely manner,” Wuhan health officials said, adding that a “statistical investigation” had been conducted to correct the figures.Objectively, there were late reports, misse…