In Wuhan, China, if the containment has ended in recent days, many are wondering about the real number of deaths linked to Covid-19. While authorities have announced nearly 3,300 dead, a Beijing-based newspaper reports that more than 6,500 funeral urns have been delivered in recent weeks.

As the toll of the coronavirus pandemic grows daily by day in Europe and in the world, a question begins to arise on everyone's lips: and if China, first home of Covid-19, had voluntarily minimized the number of his dead? In Wuhan, where it all started, the images are breathtaking: thousands of people have come to collect the ashes of their loved ones, while the official death toll indicates around 3,300 deaths.

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6,500 ballot boxes delivered in two weeks

"Some families have said they had to wait several hours to collect the ashes," reports Le Soir . But Caixin, a Chinese media based in Beijing, has made a macabre count. According to the newspaper, more than 6,500 urns have been delivered to Wuhan City in the past two weeks to collect the ashes of the victims of Covid 19.

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Nearly twice the number officially announced across the country. The newspaper also shows the long queues, which can extend up to two hundred meters: families come to collect the ashes and the death certificates of their relatives.

45,000 funeral urns only for the city of Wuhan while China only officially speaks of 3,200 deaths throughout the country.
This state lie has led us to underestimate the extent of this pandemic. https://t.co/uAHNYSpSry

- Dr Jimmy Mohamed ⭐️⭐️ (@Dr_moji) March 29, 2020

Questions about the start date

The photos have been abundantly taken up on social networks where many are wondering about the real results of this epidemic, which would have started in November, or even in September, when thousands of more ballot boxes were delivered. in Wuhan at the end of 2019. Because many victims have not been hospitalized or even identified by the authorities, who today want to turn the page and focus on returning to work.

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Photo posted by Weibo user @ 毛大庆. Some wuhan ppl, after months of shelter-in-place, are waiting in line at Hankou Funeral Home to pick up family members' ashes. This is heartbreaking. pic.twitter.com/pceIslxpa9

- Tony Lin (social distancing aka introverting) (@tony_zy) March 25, 2020

Already this weekend, Patrick Berche, professor emeritus of microbiology and former director of the Pasteur Institute, explained on our antenna that it was very likely that China has lowered its mortality caused by Covid-19.