Senior medical Advisor to the government of China Zhong Nanshan revealed information about concealing data is infected at the beginning of the pandemic.
The doctor said Wuhan authorities that the new virus is transmitted from person to person in mid-January. However, they decided to hide the information, saying that the situation is under control.
“At the time local authorities didn’t want to tell the truth. In the beginning they were silent, and then I said, we probably infected more people,” said a virologist.
He suspected that the authorities underestimate the number of cases when the ten days figure 41 is not changed, and information about the infected persons came from abroad.
Then the virologist put pressure on local authorities. They admitted that as of January 20, the total number of cases COVID-19 in Wuhan has reached 198 people, three died.
Already from January 23 all information supplied to the outside, I’m sure the virologist was right. The government realized their mistakes and learned the lesson earlier, when he concealed information about SARS for several months.
