Thread by @EpochTimesHK

Here's why the data on #CoronavirusOutbreak is severely underreported: #China is manipulating data of confirmed #WuhanCoronavirus cases through limiting the issue of Coronavirus diagnosis kits to hospitals.

Only those tested + w/ Coronavirus kit are noted as a confirmed case.

Without confirmation via kit, the patient's medical record in says "viral pneumonia," not "new coronavirus pneumonia."

Kit is only given depending on your condition, and very rarely "wasted" on already dead victims, so the reported mortality rate is very low.

#WuhanCoronavirus

A man named Zhang Xin, and his father, both presumed to be viral pneumonia, but were rejected by the Optics Valley Tongji Hospital w/ the reason given as, "there is no diagnosis w/out a kit, and w/out diagnosis patients cannot be admitted."

Both returned home w/out treatment.

The initial #CoronavirusOutbreak was covered by layers of control. For provinces&cities except Wuhan, the diagnosis review must be reported to provincial level, the country, and evaluated by an expert team. Only after 3 rounds of review, can the #WuhanCoronavirus be confirmed.

The source in the disease control system revealed that all samples were sent to the lab of Hubei Provincial Center for Disease Control and Prevention testing.

"Not only are the number of kits limited, the detection equipment and lab personnel are also operating under overload."

All factors complicit with severe underreporting of number affected within China by #WuhanCoronavirus.

The real numbers for #CoronavirusOutbreak are allegedly much larger than reported outwardly by China Gov.

Original Article (Chinese): epochtimes.com/b5/20/1/24/n11…

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