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The Chinese city of Wuhan recently lifted its strict quarantine measures

in The Chinese city of Wuhan, where the coronavirus emerged in the Last Year has his official Covid-19 deaths by 50%, the addition of 1,290 death raised.

Wuhan officials attributed the new figure from the updating of the reporting and deaths outside of hospitals. China has insisted that it was not a cover-up.

He was accused of downplaying the severity of his virus outbreak.

Wuhan 11 million inhabitants spent months in strict lockdown conditions, which was only recently relaxed.

The latest official figures, the number of deaths in The City in China's Central Hubei province, to 3,869, increasing The National total of More Than 4,600.

China has confirmed that nearly 84,000 coronavirus infections, making it the seventh highest in The World , according to the Johns Hopkins University Data .

that shrank for the First Time in decades in The First quarter of the year.

What is China's explanation for the increase in deaths is?

In a statement released on Friday, officials in Wuhan, said the revised figures were the result of the re-received Data from multiple sources, including records of funeral homes and prisons.

the dead in connection with The Virus outside of hospitals, such as people not been killed captured At Home , the before.

The "statistical test" was followed by the efforts of The Authorities to "ensure that the information about The City of Covid-19-is epidemic in an open, transparent, and the Data [is] right," The Statement said.

He added that the health systems are overwhelmed initially and cases have been reported "by mistake" - in some cases, More Than once, and the other missed completely.

led to A lack of testing capacity in the early phases that many of the infected patients have not been taken into account, it said.

A spokesman for China's National Health Commission, Mi Feng, said the new death number came from a "comprehensive review" of the epidemic.

In its daily Press Conference of The Foreign office, said allegations of cover-up, the most vocal on the World Stage , US President, Donald Trump , unfounded. "We will never allow any concealment," a spokesman said.

Why there are concerns about China's numbers?

on Friday revised figures come amid growing international concern that deaths in China have been under-reported. Questions have also been dealing with the epidemic raised over Beijing, especially in its early stages.

In December 2019, the Chinese authorities launched started an investigation into a mysterious viral pneumonia to the cases in Wuhan.

China reported the cases to The World health organization (WHO), the UN global health agency, on 31.

But THE experts were only allowed to visit China and investigate the outbreak on the 10th of February, by which time the country had More Than 40,000 cases.

The Mayor of Wuhan, has appeared then, it was a lack of action between the beginning of January - in about 100 cases had been confirmed and 23 January , at The City -wide restrictions have been adopted.

Around this time, a doctor, tries to warn his colleagues about the outbreak of a Sars-like virus has been silenced by The Authorities . Dr. Li Ruifeng.

Wuhan deaths increase of almost exactly 50% of the questions on the left of some analysts, if this is all a little too neat. to have

for months, questions about the veracity of China's official coronavirus statistics.

The implication was that some Chinese officials may awaken in deaths and infections to give the impression that the cities and municipalities have been successful in the management of The Emergency .

If that was the case, the Chinese officials don't know exactly how bad this crisis would be small in other countries, which seem to be their own characters now implausibly.

The Authorities in Wuhan, where The First cluster of this disease was reported, said it had allowed no deliberate misrepresentation of Data , but rather that a stabilization in The Emergency , she had to rethink the time, the cases and add all missing so far.

the new numbers of victims was released, at the same time, a Press Conference announced a total collapse in China, the Economic Growth rates has led some to ask whether This Was an attempt to bury one or the other of these stories.

Then Again , it could be a complete coincidence.

China has proposals already for a long time against US, with the reports of the Corona Virus comes from a laboratory infectious diseases in Wuhan, The Bbc 's Barbara Plett Usher in Washington Dc to study.

U.S. President Donald Trump and some of his officials have been flirting with the outlier theory, which says, in the middle of a propaganda war with China about The Origin and the handling of the pandemic, our correspondent.

Mr Trump This Week , stopped the funding for The World Health Organization (WHO), accusing it of making deadly mistakes and too trusting of China.

"do you really believe that these numbers believe in this huge country called China, and that you have a certain number of cases and for a certain number of deaths; does anyone really?" Mr Trump said at the White house on Wednesday.

the French President, said it was "to suggest naive", the country had dealt better with The Crisis , to add to things "not happening, we know".

On Thursday, the British foreign Minister, Dominic Raab , said: "We need to came ask the Hard Questions about how [coronavirus], and how it would not have stopped. "

But China has also been praised for his handling of The Crisis and the unprecedented restrictions that will be initiated to slow the spread of The Virus .

WHO Director-General for the "speed at which [it] was the eruption" and its "commitment to Transparency ".

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