{"id":17267,"date":"2020-04-17T21:21:09","date_gmt":"2020-04-17T12:21:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/apr\/17\/china-denies-cover-up-as-wuhan-coronavirus-deaths-revised-up-50"},"modified":"2020-04-17T21:21:09","modified_gmt":"2020-04-17T12:21:09","slug":"china-denies-cover-up-as-wuhan-coronavirus-deaths-revised-up-50","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=17267","title":{"rendered":"China denies cover-up as Wuhan coronavirus deaths revised up 50%"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Increase in total comes after weeks of scepticism over officially reported figures<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/series\/coronavirus-live\/latest\">Coronavirus \u2013 latest updates<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/coronavirus-outbreak\">See all our coronavirus coverage<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Authorities in the Chinese city where the global coronavirus pandemic began late last year have revised its death toll upwards by 50%, as the government in Beijing again denied there had been any cover-up in its handling of the crisis.<\/p>\n<p>A local government taskforce in Wuhan charged with virus prevention added 1,290 fatalities to the city\u2019s toll, taking the confirmed count to 3,869 from a previously reported 2,579. Wuhan, a city of 11 million people, suffered more fatalities than any other city in China as residents struggled get help from its overwhelmed medical system.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/apr\/17\/china-denies-cover-up-as-wuhan-coronavirus-deaths-revised-up-50\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Increase in total comes after weeks of scepticism over officially reported figuresCoronavirus \u2013 latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageAuthorities in the Chinese city where the global coronavirus pandemic began late last year have revised its de&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,50,1069,1244,526,419,47,818,42,49],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17267","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-coronavirus-outbreak","category-emmanuel-macron","category-france","category-russia","category-us-news","category-vladimir-putin","category-world-news","category-xi-jinping"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17267","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17267"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17267\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17268,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17267\/revisions\/17268"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17267"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17267"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17267"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}