'The Paper' (April 17) reported that China has revised its official count of deaths from the coronavirus, adding some 1,290 deaths in Wuhan, the city where the virus first emerged last December. The addition, reported by state media on April 16, brings the nationwide death toll to 4,636, the majority coming from Hubei province, where Wuhan is located. The additional deaths were all counted in Wuhan and the late reporting of deaths are due to several reasons, said the report. The first is that some patients died at home without seeing a doctor or being tested for the virus as hospitals were overwhelmed during the epidemic’s peak.

(Comment: China has come under sustained criticism, especially from the U.S., that it has concealed the extent of its outbreak and under-reported its number of cases and deaths.)