A special investigation has uncovered a trove of documents which prove China intentionally buried evidence of coronavirus outbreaks in the early weeks of the pandemic to “downplay the severity of the virus”.
The Wuhan Files, verified by CNN, were labelled “internal document, please keep confidential” and detail of 5,918 cases record on February 10 in the province of Hubei.
CNN reports that: “This larger figure was never fully revealed at that time, as China's accounting system seemed, in the tumult of the early weeks of the pandemic, to downplay the severity of the outbreak”.
The documents have been billed as the most “significant leak” from inside China since the start of the pandemic and shine a light on the true extent of how China covered up evidence of the coronavirus.
