How can the world force China to produce accurate data?
With the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, calls erupted around the world for increased transparency from Chinese authorities regarding the virus’s origin. Transparency is not Beijing’s strong suit, to say the least, and it took several external investigations to determine that the virus had in fact originated in Wuhan.
Fast-forward three years, and not much has changed. Last Shabbos, Chinese authorities finally admitted that 59,938 people had died from Covid in the past month. This was a “slight” correction to the previous official government tally, which came to a grand total of 37 fatalities.
That’s right, until Shabbos, Chinese authorities were claiming that in a country of 1.4 billion, only 37 people had died from Covid in December and January.
However, Western media reports, backed by photographs proving that morbidity in hospitals and activity in funeral homes were much higher than usual, led the authorities to change their story.
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