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As the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) hides the infection and death count of the coronavirus in China, researchers are trying to estimate the actual number. The American Enterprise Institute (AEI) published a report that estimates about 2.9 million Chinese may have been infected.

The report said that China’s COVID-19 figures are not arithmetically sensible. The CCP has deliberately made estimation difficult. Outside of Wuhan city and Hubei province, cases are low by a factor of 100 or more.

In late January, Chinese media provided information about migrant outflow from Wuhan before the quarantine. Using a lower number than theirs, then conservative figures for migrants’ infection rate and time in circulation before the national lockdown, the report generates an estimate of 2.9 million cases.

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Source: American Enterprise Institute, April 7, 2020

Estimating the true number of China’s COVID-19 cases

As the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) hides the infection and death count of the coronavirus in China, researchers are trying to estimate the actual number. Fox News reported that a Trump administration official told it that they estimate that China has under-reported the true nationwide tally of the coronavirus infection and death count by at least a factor of 50.

The official said, “The People’s Republic of China (PRC) numbers as reported today seem to be arithmetically impossible. Again, we don’t know the real numbers today, but we do know the about 80,000 infections and 4,000 deaths as reported by the Chinese Communist Party propaganda are not even remotely close.”

In support of this claim, officials point to the existence of seven funeral homes inside Wuhan city with a total incineration capacity of about 2,000 corpses per day. They also flagged recent reporting that incinerators have been in near-constant use for 24 hours per day over the past several weeks. They note that, at this rate, the city’s incineration capacity nears 60,000 corpses per month.

Between March 23 and April 4, the Wuhan government tried to return 500 urns per day to Wuhan families, or about one urn per minute of each day, in accordance with official social distancing recommendations. Based on this official guidance, sources arrive at a lower-end total tally of 45,500 corpses incinerated earlier and returned to their families.

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• Death Count: China Revised Wuhan Death Count
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• Death Count: (Unconfirmed) Huoshenshan Hospital Has Emptied 200 Rooms Every Day
• Death Count: Funeral Home Interviews Suggested 500 Corpses Incinerated in Wuhan per Day

Source: Fox News, April 27, 2020
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/china-could-have-50-times-more-coronavirus-cases-than-claimed-trump-administration-official-says

Epoch Times obtained a document from the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region (AR) that shows China’s National Health Commission had created a treatment and prevention plan for pneumonia caused by the novel coronavirus before January 15.

The document, titled “Emergency Notice on the Medical Treatment of Pneumonia Cases from the Novel Coronavirus Infection,” was issued by the Inner Mongolia AR Health Commission on January 15. It passed down the National Health Commission’s “treatment plan, work requirements for pre-examination and fever examination, confirmation procedure for the first (coronavirus) case, and requirements on hospital infection prevention and control and healthcare providers’ personal protection” to the AR’s subordinate health commissions.

The emergency notice pointed out the virus originated in Wuhan and asked the medical staff to “improve early-stage detection capability” and “ask the patients who had a temperature whether they had been exposed to Wuhan markets in the past two weeks.”

The document is marked “Super Urgent” and “Not to Be Disclosed.” It states “for internal work use and not to be allowed to be spread on the Internet.”

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More and more news indicates that Heilongjiang Province is either already suffering a wide spread of the coronavirus or is facing a large outbreak.

#1: On April 27, Xi Jinping, at the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) Politburo Standing Committee meeting, singled out Heilongjiang, stating that it must strengthen measures on epidemic prevention and control, investigate loopholes, and fix shortcomings, especially in the prevention of hospital infections. (Oriental Daily)

#2: On April 30, the State Council sent a supervisory group to Heilongjiang to oversee their coronavirus prevention work. Several members were sent from the supervisory group to Hubei. On May 1, the supervisory group reported four major issues found in Heilongjiang:

1. A lack of understanding of epidemic prevention and control.
2. Weaknesses in “before hospital” management: people entering Heilongjiang from abroad were not quarantined in a centralized location, checkpoints did not test people strictly, and local communities did not have effective prevention and control.
3. The authorities did not conduct enough coronavirus tests.
4. Hospitals did not have effective prevention and control measures. (Central News Agency)

#3: On May 1, Harbin, the capital city of Heilongjiang, issued an urgent notice to all districts, counties, and municipal agencies: starting on May 2, all restaurants doing BBQ, hot pot, and pot cooking services should stop dining-in services. When to open the service will be decided later. Shopping malls, supermarkets, and farmer’s markets should manage indoor ventilation, conduct disinfection, require people to wear face masks, measure each visitor’s body temperature, scan their health codes on mobile phones, and restrict the number of visitors. (China National Radio)

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The “Lianghui,” or “Two Conferences,” is a common Mandarin Chinese abbreviation for the national or local People’s Congress and the national or local committee of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference. It’s a rubber stamp process to show that representatives of the people in the country or in a local region have reviewed and approved of the work of the central or local government and they make decisions on the personnel in the committees of the People’s Congress and the People’s Political Consultative Conference.

Traditionally, the national level of the “lianghui” takes places in Beijing in early March, with each conference running for over ten days. However, due to the outbreak of the coronavirus, Beijing postponed it.

On April 29, Beijing announced it would hold the National People’s Congress on May 22 and the National People’s Political Consultative Conference on May 21. The duration of each conference will be shortened, but the details have not been announced.

The local “lianghui,” mainly the municipal level and then the provincial level of the two conferences should take place before the national conferences. Some provinces have completed their meetings already, including Hubei Province which met in the middle of January. Other local governments will probably need to hold their conferences soon.

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The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) recently started a new wave of claiming the U.S. was the origin of the coronavirus.

This was not the first time that the CCP made such an attempt. The last wave was initiated when the Spokesperson for China’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Zhao Lijian, claimed that American soldiers brought it to Wuhan. President Trump and other U.S. officials seriously and furiously rejected China’s blame. Then the CCP was quiet for a while.

On April 26, Xinhua published an International Commentary:

“The recent report from the Public Health Department of Santa Clara County in California showed that people there died from the novel coronavirus as early as February 6. That was more than 20 days earlier than the first coronavirus death that the U.S. announced publicly. Since that patient didn’t travel to other countries, this discovery means that the infection in that society might have already taken place in early or mid-January.

“On March 11, Robert Redfield, Director of the US Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), admitted at a Congressional hearing that there were cases of deaths from the novel coronavirus being mistaken for deaths from influenza.

“In fact, a clear picture of the timeline of the coronavirus outbreaks in the U.S. has always been missing. The California report shows that the U.S. might have had infections in society as early as January, but that could just be the tip of the iceberg. California Governor Newsom has announced an autopsy would be conducted on deaths since last December that were suspected of being caused by the novel coronavirus. People are waiting to see what new findings this may lead to.”

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The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) recently started a new wave of claims against the U.S. as the origin of the coronavirus.

This was not the first time that the CCP made such an attempt. The last wave was initiated by China’s Foreign Minister Spokesperson Zhao Lijian who claimed that American soldiers brought the coronavirus to Wuhan. President Trump and other U.S. officials seriously and furiously rejected China’s blame.

On March 31, The U.S. Department of State spokesperson Morgan Ortagus stated that Xi Jinping, in his conversation with President Trump on March 26, promised to control the Chinese side to keep it from blaming the U.S. China has since been quiet. (#1: Radio France International)

However, on April 23, China started the accusations again.

At a news briefing of the Joint Prevention and Join Control of the Coronavirus Mechanism of the State Council, a reporter asked Shi Yi, a researcher at the Institute of Microbiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences:

“Recently, foreign media reported that the U.S. military restarted the Fort Detrick Biochemical Research Laboratory in Maryland. Many local people began to flee when they got the news. Some people in the U.S. believe that there is multiple evidence indicating that the shutting down of the Fort Detrick lab in August last year was very suspicious. They suspect that the base may be the source of the novel coronavirus and caused the influenza pandemic in the fall and winter in the U.S. Then the virus mutated after American soldiers participating in the Wuhan Military Games brought it over to China and spread it in China. How do you view this issue?”

Shi Yi replied, “We have noticed relevant information on the Internet. Some people in the U.S. suspect that the Fort Detrick lab may be the source of the novel coronavirus. The U.S. has not provided a response publicly yet and we have no way to make a judgment.” (#2: China News Service)

Many Chinese media, including China Central Television (CCTV) and the government’s official site reported this Q&A. (#3: CCTV and #4: China’s Government Site)

Radio Free Asia commented that this was a well-arranged Q&A. A news reporter from an official media read a lengthy paragraph stating a prepared question (which was a statement rather than a question, which was a mixture of truth and misinformation). Then Shi Yi read back the prepared answer. In fact, the Fort Detrick lab was closed in July of last year due to the failure of the steam sterilization equipment; it now has a new wastewater treatment system. (#5: Radio Free Asia)

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• Propaganda and Lies: Ministry of Foreign Affairs Spokesperson Said Virus Was From the U.S.

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#1: On April 16, attorney Alejandro Sánchez Kalbermatten of Argentina filed a criminal lawsuit against China in Argentina’s Criminal and Correctional Court 12. Kalbermatten Sued China for genocide through intentionally concealing the information about the coronavirus.

Kalbermatten is seeking, under the criminal investigation framework, to find out the origin of the coronavirus, who should be responsible, why it happened, for what geo-political purpose, as well as whether the deaths and crises that this global pandemic has caused constitute genocide or crimes against humanity. These crimes should be investigated and tried by the International Criminal Court in accordance with the Rome Statute.

This is the first criminal case against the communist regime in China regarding the coronavirus pandemic.

Kalbermatten also plans a class action lawsuit against China. He expressed that the World Health Organization (WHO) was also responsible for this pandemic. (Epoch Times)

#2: A coalition of Nigerian lawyers filed a lawsuit against China. They are demanding $200 billion in damages for the “loss of lives, economic strangulation, trauma, hardship, social disorientation, mental torture, and disruption of the normal daily existence of the people in Nigeria.” The lead attorney is Prof. Epiphany Azinge of the law firm Azinge and Azinge.

Azinge is currently a member of the Commonwealth Arbitral Tribunal in London, representing Nigeria and Africa. (Daily Post)

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