Caixin is a Beijing-based media group providing financial and business news and information. Hu Shuli (胡舒立), who is known for her outspoken style, founded it in 2010.
Caixin reported that 11 elderly people from the Wuhan Social Welfare Institute (武汉社会福利院) had died from the coronavirus.
On February 21, the Wuhan Network Information Office released a notice from the Wuhan Civil Affairs Bureau saying that Caixin’s report was a rumor. Only one elderly person had died there.
On February 24, Caixin countered that the social welfare institute only counted people who died between February 11 and February 19. According to its news reporters’ findings, from late December 2019 to February 19, 2020, several elderly people there had developed coronavirus symptoms and then died.
Caixin further published a death list from the institute which stated that 15 people died from December 23, 2019 to February 11, 2020 and another 4 died from February 11 to 18.
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