The epicenter of the coronavirus outbreak in China has reportedly revised upwards its number of confirmed coronavirus cases and deaths in the city after "a city-wide investigation," state media reported.
The municipal government in Wuhan said total confirmed infections have been revised to 50,333 as of Thursday, an increase of 325 cases, while the cumulative number of deaths is now 3,869 — 1,290 more than its previous count.
Following the revision by Wuhan, China’s National Health Commission said Friday that the death toll in mainland China has been revised from 3,342 to 4,632. Meanwhile, adds NHC, the total confirmed cases have been revised from 82,367 to 82,692.
Xinhua posted a notice from the Wuhan government, which listed four explanations for the discrepancy in the city’s data.
First, the notice said, a surge of patients in the early stage of the outbreak caused a shortage of medical resources and inadequacy in the city’s treatment capacity, resulting in some patients dying at home
What is more, hospitals were overwhelmed, which resulted in delayed, missing or erroneous reporting of cases and deaths.
It also said given the vast network of health-care institutions involved in treating patients with the coronavirus, some failed to provide timely updates about the cases they were handling.
Finally, the notice said, registration of some deaths was either repeated or misreported.
