On January 26, last year, medical staff wearing protective equipment are evacuating patients in Wuhan, Hubei Province, China. [AP=연합뉴스]
– In Hubei Province, where the new coronavirus infection (Corona 19) was first reported in China, reports have reported that about 150,000 elderly people have suddenly disappeared. Those who received pensions until last year were removed from the list of pensioners this year.
Accordingly, there are suspicions that the Chinese authorities have announced a reduction in the number of Corona 19 deaths in Wuhan, Hubei Province, which had been blocked for 76 days.
On the 17th, the Hong Kong Bin Fruit Daily reported that, in the first quarter of last year, the names of about 150,000 people suddenly disappeared from the list of pensions paid to seniors aged 80 and over in Hubei Province, citing a report from Free Asia Broadcasting (RFA). The RFA quoted data from the Hubei Provincial Civil Government and delivered it as such.
In addition, local officials said they did not explain the evaporation of 150,000 names from the senior pension list, and that the media and the public also prohibited counting the number of funerals and burials held during the period.
However, local activists said they found that the number of cremation cases surged last year as a result of analyzing official announcements by the authorities.
About 410,000 cremation cases were performed in Hubei Province in the first quarter of last year, and 374,000 and 360,000 cases were performed in the same period in 2019 and 2018, respectively. According to official statistics alone, it is an increase of 30,000 to 40,000 cases.
However, according to official statistics from the Chinese authorities, the cumulative death toll of Corona 19 in Wuhan is 3869. Even if expanded across China, the official cumulative death toll of Corona 19 is 4,636.
Local activist Liu Jun claimed that at least five times more people died in Hubei Province in the first quarter of last year than officially announced by the authorities.
An anonymous scholar pointed out in the Bingu Daily, “It is unusual to see that the number of senior citizen pension applicants has declined sharply in a situation where the number of senior citizens increases every year as we enter an aging society.
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World Health Organization (WHO) dispatch team visiting a hospital in Wuhan, Hubei Province, China. [로이터=연합뉴스]
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Binfruit Daily reported that this RFA report confirmed that 13 mutant viruses with different gene sequences have already spread in Wuhan in December 2019 by a World Health Organization (WHO) investigation team who recently visited Wuhan to investigate the origin of Corona 19. He explained that it came out after the report.
“The virus was circulating widely in December 2019 in Wuhan,” said Dr. Peter Ben Embarek, who led the WHO Wuhan fieldwork team, in an interview with CNN. This means that there could have been more than 1000 COVID-19 infections in Wuhan at the time. Explained.
Earlier, the Hong Kong South China Morning Post (SCMP) reported on the 14th that a memorial chrysanthemum fell in Wuhan during the Lunar New Year holidays this year.
In China, after midnight on the first day of the lunar new year, there is a custom of burning incense and a wreath of white and yellow chrysanthemums to commemorate the souls of the deceased last year.
Accordingly, some are raising suspicions that the number of Corona 19 deaths is greater than the official announcement.
Reporter Bae Jae-seong [email protected]
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