China has reported 37 deaths from the virus since last month.
death toll, which continued to climb in single digits while the country's leading institutions published dozens of obituaries in recent weeks.
Chinese health authorities have reported only 37 COVID-related deaths since last month, for a pandemic total of roughly 5,000. British health analytics company Airfinity, which maintains aof the world's largest outbreak, estimated China was seeing 20,400 daily deaths as of January 11, with a projected death toll of 1.7 million by the end of April.
Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, the director-general of the WHO, said on Wednesday there was"almost certainly" an underreporting of virus deaths in China. Maria Van Kerkhove, the agency's technical lead on COVID, said communication with Beijing was ongoing to fill"very important information gaps" related to hospitalizations, deaths and genome sequencing.
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