A review of the data was made as Wuhan city authorities specified that in the early stages of the epidemic, the scale was distorted because hospitals were overcrowded with patients and the testing system was not expanding fast enough.
The city authorities have revised the number of the dead by including another 1,290 people on the list, which has increased the total number of deaths by about half. Thus, the death toll in Wuhan was 3,869 (all over China. 4,462 as of April 17). Formally, 1454 deaths from coronavirus were added, but 164 cases were reduced, which were “duplicates of those already accounted for” or resulted from other diseases. The number of confirmed patients in the city increased from 50,008 to 50,333, while 217 “duplicates” were excluded.
Thus, the mortality rate in Wuhan was 7.69%, 5.52% throughout China. These figures are lower than those in the most affected countries: France – 16.46%, Algeria – 15.34%, Belgium – 13.95%, England – 13.31%, Italy – 13.12%.
These “drownings” are extremely important, as many countries are guided by the Chinese experience, including the scale of the disease, the contagiousness of the virus, the effectiveness of quarantine, and much more. There is much more that China will “refine”, as well as other countries. This is the second major “correction” in terms of figures – the first was on January 27, when large-scale testing began.