An outspoken critic of China has sensationally claimed to have been told by a doctor from Wuhan that five million people have died across the country as a result of coronavirus.
Wuhan authorities last week revised their death figures from the epicentre of the outbreak, by an increase of 50% to 3,869, bringing the total dead across China to 4,632.
They admitted people dying at home and cases in hospitals were missed during the early stages but China’s foreign ministry denied that there had been a cover-up of the figures.
Fears have risen recently, though, that Chinese officials have deliberately underreported the extent of the disease in the country.
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