GENEVA/ZURICH (REUTERS) - A sharp upward revision in China's coronavirus death toll on Friday (April 17) was 'an attempt to leave no case undocumented' after medical services in Wuhan were overwhelmed at the start of the outbreak, the World Health Organisation (WHO) said.. Read more at straitstimes.com.
GENEVA/ZURICH - A sharp upward revision in China's coronavirus death toll on Friday was"an attempt to leave no case undocumented" after medical services in Wuhan were overwhelmed at the start of the outbreak, the World Health Organisation said.
Maria van Kerkhove, a WHO epidemiologist who took part in an international mission to China in February, said of China's revised figures:"This was done in attempt to leave no case undocumented." "Secondly, is that medical staff were delayed in reporting of these cases because they were focused on providing care for those patients and they didn't fill out the forms in time," she said.
"I would anticipate that many countries are going to be in a similar situation where they will have to go back and review records and look to see did we capture all of them," she said.
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