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Wuhan COVID Infections Three Times Higher Than Official Figure According To China Study

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A study by Chinese researchers declares that the number of people infected by COVID-19 virus in Wuhan, the epicentre was three times higher than the official figure. The paper was published by the PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases journal on Thursday. The study focused on Wuhan as that was the epicenter of the COVID-19 pandemic at the end of 2019 and was found to be associated with a seafood market in the city.

 

Here are the details about the study:

  1. The actual cases were 3 times higher than the official figure which translates into 168,000 people infected as compared to the figure of 50,340 hospitalized cases.
  2. Of the estimated 10 million population in Wuhan, blood samples were taken and analyzed from more than 60,000 healthy individuals across China from March to May 2020.
  3. Of the blood samples taken, 1.68 % of those individuals in Wuhan contained antibodies for SARS-CoV-2. This virus is a result of COVID-19. In comparison with Hubei province it is 0.59 % while it is 0.38 % in the rest of the country.
  4. Atleast two thirds of the total number were asymptomatic and thousands could have been infected after the elimination of clinical cases. What this means is that there is a possibility that the virus could exist in a community for a long period without causing hospitalizations.
  5. Chinese Centre for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) published a separate story recently. CDC clarified that the percentage of population with antibodies is 4.43% which is even higher. What this means is that half a million citizens of the city would have been infected.
  6. World Health Organization was due to arrive in China with its 10-team of personnel for inspection of the origin of COVID-19. However, they await the authorization to enter the country.

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Currently, COVID-19 cases in China stand at 87,331 while the death toll remains the same at 4,634. Though there have been many doctors and scientists from the country who have been trying to give the inside story of the virus and have often gone into hiding, China as a country continues to underplay the numbers and not admit the fact that during the initial days, they hid the intensity of the pandemic from the rest of the world.

 

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