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**sharon sanders** · January 20, 2020, 12:44 AM

Media reports believed to be reliable:

All are in totals above at this time.

**sharon sanders** · January 28, 2020, 09:02 PM

A note about the Chinese cases:

1) These are reported by the National Health Commission as the official case count for the entire country,

2) Provinces submit cases to the National Health Commission for a final proclamation that cases are truly confirmed,

Here is the first mention of this process that we have on the site:

"The national, provincial and municipal expert groups comprehensively judged the clinical manifestations, epidemiological history, and laboratory test results of patients admitted to the hospital for treatment,..)

https://flutrackers.com/forum/forum/...528#post822528

**sharon sanders** · March 27, 2020, 02:45 PM

posted with permission.

hat tip to Jason Gale

Stacks of Urns in Wuhan Prompt New Questions of Virus’s Toll
2020-03-27 05:06:05.974 GMT

By Bloomberg News
(Bloomberg) -- The long lines and stacks of ash urns
greeting family members of the dead at funeral homes in Wuhan
are spurring questions about the true scale of coronavirus
casualties at the epicenter of the outbreak, renewing pressure
on a Chinese government struggling to control its containment
narrative.
The families of those who succumbed to the virus in the
central Chinese city, where the disease first emerged in
December, were allowed to pick up their cremated ashes at eight
local funeral homes starting this week. As they did, photos
circulated on Chinese social media of thousands of urns being
ferried in.
Outside one funeral home, trucks shipped in about 2,500
urns on both Wednesday and Thursday, according to Chinese media
outlet Caixin. Another picture published by Caixin showed 3,500
urns stacked on the ground inside. It’s unclear how many of the
urns had been filled.
People who answered the phone at six of the eight funeral
homes in Wuhan said they either did not have data on how many
urns were waiting to be collected, or were not authorized to
disclose the numbers. Calls were not answered at the other two.
Some families said they had been forced to wait for several
hours to pick up the ashes. The photos circulated as mass deaths
from the virus spiked in cities across the west, including
Milan, Madrid and New York, where hospitals were erecting tents
to handle the overflow as global infections soar past 500,000,
with 24,000 dead.
According to Chinese government figures, 2,535 people in
Wuhan have died of the virus. The announcement that a lockdown
in place since January would be lifted came after China said its
tally of new cases had hit zero and stepped up diplomatic
outreach to other countries hard hit by the virus, sending some
of them medical supplies.
But some in China have been skeptical of the accuracy of
the official tally, particularly given Wuhan’s overwhelmed
medical system, authorities’ attempts to cover up the outbreak
in its initial stages, and multiple revisions to the way
official cases are counted. Residents on social media have
demanded disciplinary action against top Wuhan officials.
China’s Hidden Symptom-Free Virus Cases Means Epidemic Not
Over
Many people who died had Covid-19 symptoms, but weren’t
tested and excluded from the official case tally, Caixin said.
There were also patients who died of other diseases due to a
lack of proper treatment when hospitals were overwhelmed dealing
with those who had the coronavirus.
There were 56,007 cremations in Wuhan in the fourth quarter
of 2019, according to data from the city’s civil affairs agency.
The number of cremations was 1,583 higher than those in the
fourth quarter of 2018 and 2,231 higher than the fourth quarter
of 2017.

Mourning Restrictions

The families of the deceased may not be able to say a
proper goodbye to their loved ones just yet. Wuhan’s government
issued a statement on Thursday prohibiting individuals in the
city from tomb-sweeping activities until April 30, meaning they
would not be able to observe the traditional April 4 Ching Ming
Festival, or tomb sweeping holiday. Other provinces including
Guangxi and Zhejiang have also announced similar restrictions.
Two locals in Wuhan who have lost family members to the
virus said online that they were informed they had to be
accompanied by their employers or officials from neighborhood
committees when picking up the urns, likely as a measure against
public gatherings.
“I was told by district government to wait until further
notice on when I can pick up my father’s ashes,” one Wuhan
resident using the name “Xue Zai Shou Zhong,” meaning “snow in
hand,” posted on Weibo. “There is a staggered arrangement for
urn collecting.”
Another Weibo user using the handle Adagier said she lost
her husband to the coronavirus and had since been contacted by
police warning her not to be too emotional -- and to stop
posting online.
“I have only one demand,” she wrote. “I want to give my
husband a proper burial as soon as possible.”

--With assistance from Dandan Li and Claire Che.

**sharon sanders** · March 29, 2020, 01:58 PM

Not exactly honest...follow the money people.....

Estimates Show Wuhan Death Toll Far Higher Than Official Figure

2020-03-27

snip

Another popular estimate is based on the cremation capacity of the funeral homes, which run a total of 84 furnaces with a capacity over 24 hours of 1,560 urns city-wide, assuming that one cremation takes one hour.

This calculation results in an estimated 46,800 deaths.

A resident of Hubei province, of which Wuhan is the capital, said most people there now believe that more than 40,000 people died in the city before and during the lockdown.

"Maybe the authorities are gradually releasing the real figures, intentionally or unintentionally, so that people will gradually come to accept the reality," the resident, who gave only his surname Mao, said.

more...

https://www.rfa.org/english/news/chi...020182846.html

**sharon sanders** · March 31, 2020, 11:55 AM

A photo gallery of a funeral home and thousands of urns - March 28, 2020

https://www.caixinglobal.com/2020-03...101535128.html

**sharon sanders** · December 30, 2020, 10:20 AM

Wuhan’s Covid-19 cases may have been 10 times higher: Study

About 4.4% of those tested were found to have specific antibodies that can fight off the pathogen that causes Covid-19, indicating they were infected sometime in the past, according to a serological survey of more than 34,000 people conducted in April by the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention

December 30, 2020, 07:29 IST

Wuhan’s Covid-19 cases may have been 10 times higher: Study - ET HealthWorld

https://health.economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/diagnostics/wuhans-covid-19-cases-may-have-been-10-times-higher-study/80019474

About 4.4% of those tested were found to have specific antibodies that can fight off the pathogen that causes Covid-19, indicating they were infected sometime in the past, according to a serological survey of more than 34,000 people conducted in April by the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention.

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