Whoops we missed 1,300 dead people

The Herald reports:

The central Chinese city of Wuhan has raised its number of Covid-19 fatalities by 1290, with state media saying today the undercount had been due to the insufficient admission capabilities at overwhelmed medical facilities at the peak of the outbreak.

Wuhan’s revised death toll of 3869 is the most in China. The number of total cases in the city of 11 million was also raised by 325 to 50,333, accounting for about two-thirds of China’s total 82,367 announced cases.

There is considerable evidence the actual death toll in Wuhan was in the tens of thousands. This latest number is no more trustworthy than the previous number.

At the end of the day you can’t trust any data from authoritarian countries where the public service is not allowed to freely report the truth.