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“Tip Of The Iceberg”: WHO Director Warns Of More Widespread Transmission As Virus Death Toll Tops 900, Beijing Under Partial Lock Down

by mosesman

  • “Tip Of The Iceberg” – WHO Director Warns Of More Widespread Transmission As Virus Death Toll Tops 900, Beijing Under Partial Lock Down
    by Tyler Durden, https://www.zerohedge.com/
    Summary:

    • Virus death toll hits 902, vastly surpassing all of  SARS (813) in only three weeks
    • The number of global confirmed cases hits 40,553 in China (40,171) and offshore (382)
    • WHO Director-General warns “we may only be seeing the tip of the iceberg”
    • Exiled Chinese billionaire says true death toll closer to 50k, 1.5 million infected
    • New cases confirmed in UK, Spain, Singapore
    • Passengers aboard ‘Diamond Princess’ warn authorities aren’t doing enough to protect them – and others
    • Officials in Shenzen say they won’t block Foxxconn factory reopening
    • Cruise ship quarantined in Hong Kong allowed to leave after 4 days

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    Update (2240ET): And so the epidemic reaches China’s capital Beijing. As gnews reports, as the coronavirus spreads from Wuhan, China has been implementing “closed management” by putting 80 cities under lockdown, and on Monday, Beijing authorities also issued a “Strict Closed Management of Residential Communities” in an epidemic prevention and control announcement (link here). It is an official declaration that Beijing, the country’s capital city of China, is now under lockdown.
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    And here we get into the part where China openly fabricates numbers. First, as discussed several days ago, the number of people receiving medial attention unexpectedly peaked at just under 190,000 after increasing by about 15,000-20,000 daily until then, in a truly mysterious “kink” on the chart below.
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    And finally, in the latest entrant to the “goalseeked” race, we have the number of suspects coronavirus cases, which after rising consistently by about 1,000-2,000 for the past two weeks, suddenly collapsed by over 5,000 overnight, resulting in a sharp drop in the total number of suspects cases from 28,942 to 23,589. On the surface this would be great, the only problem is that this violates virtually every aspect of viral epidemiology, and if anything only confirms how aggressively China is now fudging the data.
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