‘Masking actual number of deaths’: Social media posts claim China fudging data on fatalities
There is a flood of social media posts on China’s Twitter-style Weibo platform talking about longer-than-normal queues at crematoriums and funeral homes, that are buckling under a growing number of bodies, ostensibly all Covid-19 deaths Beijing: Grappling with an unprecedented increase in deaths due to Covid-19 across provinces, the Chinese authorities are not putting out actual figures of the number of people succumbing due to the viral infection, according to social media posts. There is a flood of social media posts on China’s Twitter-style Weibo platform talking about longer-than-normal queues at crematoriums and funeral homes, that are buckling under a growing number of bodies, ostensibly all Covid-19 deaths. How does China have so few number of fatalities - less than 20 since the easing of Covid-19 controls in late-November, when the virus is spreading rapidly throughout the mainland is what experts are asking on Chinese social media. A post regarding the rising number of obituaries published by a university to commemorate staff who have recently died has also been widely shared on Chinese social media platforms.
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