China raises Wuhan COVID-19 death toll by 50%, admits to missed cases

Mangalore Today News Network

Wuhan, Apr 17, 2020: China’s coronavirus ground-zero city of Wuhan on Friday abruptly raised its death toll by 50 percent to a total of 3,869, admitting that many cases were "mistakenly reported" or missed entirely, NDTV reported.

 

The adjustment, detailed in a social media posting by the city government, adds 1,290 deaths to the tally in Wuhan, where the global pandemic emerged and which has suffered the vast majority of China’s fatalities from COVID-19, the disease caused by the virus.