Wuhan’s COVID infections may have been 10 times higher
There may have been half a million
coronavirus infections in Wuhan, China, the first epicentre of the virus
pandemic. That figure is almost 10 times the official figure reported of 50,354
reported by the city of 11 million people.
The new estimations were provided by the Chinese
Center for Disease Control which conducted a study of 34,000 people in the city’s
general population.
From the sample, researchers said there
was an antibody prevalence rate of 4.43 per cent, though it noted the findings
are not to be taken for final figures on the number of people were exposed to
the virus in an area.
The reason for the vastly differing
figures is being chalked up to underreporting by many experts, particularly in
the early days of the pandemic where there under testing, little coordination
of responses and asymptomatic cases were not included in official cases.
