(ABC News) – Chinese officials overnight said they had underestimated the number of people that died from COVID-19 at the epicenter of the outbreak, in Wuhan, by 50%. The country added 1,290 dead to its readjusted total for Wuhan, with a death toll that now stands at 3,869 in the city.
China said this was not a cover-up, rather an adjustment to numbers based on new information coming from places like prisons and care facilities.
The timing of this adjustment comes as President Donald Trump criticized China for its underreporting of deaths and cases at the start of the outbreak.
French President Emmanuel Macron added his voice to the growing skepticism of China’s handling of the pandemic.
“There are clearly things that have happened that we don’t know about,” Macron told the Financial Times.
