{"id":8220,"date":"2020-12-30T13:22:23","date_gmt":"2020-12-30T06:22:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/illume-emag.com\/?p=8220"},"modified":"2022-01-12T16:58:44","modified_gmt":"2022-01-13T00:58:44","slug":"number-covid-19-cases-wuhan-china-may-10-times-higher-reported-number","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lavyon.com\/en\/number-covid-19-cases-wuhan-china-may-10-times-higher-reported-number\/","title":{"rendered":"The number of Covid-19 cases in Wuhan (China) may be 10 times higher than the reported number"},"content":{"rendered":"

Nearly half a million people in the city of Wuhan, China, where the first Covid-19 outbreak occurred, may have contracted Covid-19, 10 times the confirmed figure, according to the Center for Control. Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).<\/p>\n

The study used samples of 34,000 people in the population of Wuhan – once the epicenter of the epidemic and other cities of Hubei province, as well as areas such as Beijing, Shanghai, and Guangdong provinces, Jiangsu, Sichuan and Liaoning to assess Covid-19 infection rate.<\/p>\n

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The researchers found that the rate of antibodies to SARS-CoV-2 in Wuhan was 4.43%, out of a total population of 11 million people. Meanwhile, as of December 27, Wuhan has only announced 50,354 cases of Covid-19. This study aims to evaluate the extent of infection in the population by testing blood samples of people with antibodies to the SARS-CoV-2 virus.<\/p>\n

The China Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said the study was conducted a month after China “took control of the first wave of Covid-19 outbreaks”.<\/p>\n

The study also shows that the rate of infection outside Wuhan city is relatively low. In other cities in Hubei province, only 0.44% of participants were found to have antibodies to the SARS-CoV-2 virus. Outside of Hubei province, antibodies were detected in only 2 of the more than 12,000 people sampled.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Nearly half a million people in the city of Wuhan, China, where the first Covid-19 outbreak occurred, may have contracted Covid-19, 10 times the confirmed figure, according to the Center for Control. Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). The study used samples of 34,000 people in the population of Wuhan – once the epicenter of the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,13321,13318],"tags":[1123,3260,2438,2488,4238],"class_list":{"0":"post-8220","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-wellness-tips","7":"category-green-life","8":"category-mind-posivity","9":"tag-covid-19","10":"tag-covid-19-cases","11":"tag-illume-e-magazine-online-cover","12":"tag-illume-magazine","13":"tag-wuhan-china"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lavyon.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8220","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lavyon.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lavyon.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lavyon.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lavyon.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8220"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lavyon.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8220\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lavyon.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8220"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lavyon.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8220"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lavyon.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8220"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}