the Chinese Government Wuhan in December 2019 concealed details about the extent of the outbreak of coronavirus. In an interview with CNN, said a senior health Advisor to the government of China Nanshan Zhong (Zhong Nanshan).
it is Noted that the doctor arrived in Wuhan in mid-January and confirmed that the virus can be transmitted from person to person. However, local authorities refused to recognize it and called the situation with coronavirus in the region “controlled”.
“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.
According to the doctor, he suspected underestimation of the prevalence of infection after the official number of people infected in Wuhan — 41 was not changed for 10 days, while reports of an outbreak of coronavirus have already begun to arrive from abroad. Nanshan continued to ask questions of the authorities of Wuhan, after which they are “very reluctantly” provided real data: as of January 20, the total number of cases COVID-19 in Wuhan has reached 198 people, three died.
the medic said that withholding data was only at the initial stage of the pandemic. According to him, China has learned the lesson from the SARS outbreak of 2003, which Beijing announced for a few months. At this time, the authorities demanded that all regions under threat of punishment, to provide reliable data about the infection.
“So 23 Jan, I think all the data will be correct…,” added Nan.
Previously, the Agency Associated Press with reference to the documents of the Ministry of internal security of the USA said that Beijing deliberately concealed the severity of a pandemic in order to have time to stock up on the necessary medicines for the treatment of patients. China allegedly tried to hide it, denying the existence of export restrictions, confusing and delaying the provision of its trade data.
April 30, U.S. Secretary of state Michael Pompeo said that the Chinese authorities concealed the information about the coronavirus. He said that in the end Beijing will be held responsible for lost data.
