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Full content of Wuhan's notice on updating quantities of affirmed COVID-19 cases, passings 

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WUHAN, April 17 (Xinhua) - The Wuhan city central command for the novel coronavirus malady (COVID-19) scourge anticipation and control on Friday gave a notice on changing the quantities of affirmed COVID-19 cases and fatalities in the city. 

Coming up next is the full content of the notice.

As per the fourth passage, Article 38 of the Law of the People's Republic of China on Prevention and Treatment of Infectious Diseases, which stipulates that "data on pandemic circumstance of irresistible sicknesses will be discharged in an auspicious and precise way"; the third section, Article 25 of the Regulations on Preparedness for and Response to Emergent Public Health Hazards, which stipulates that "data will be discharged in a convenient, exact and extensive way"; Article 19 of the Regulations for the Implementation of the Statistics Law of the People's Republic of China, which stipulates that "if measurable information are fragmented or have evident mix-ups, the objective under factual examination will give supplementation or remedy as indicated by law"; Article 14 and Article 15 of the Rules for the Population Death Information Registration (for preliminary usage), which stipulate that "clinical organizations will set up information correction frameworks," "clinical foundations will set up information correlation, check and supplementation frameworks," and different guidelines; following the standard of being liable for history, the individuals and the perished and to guarantee that the data on the city's COVID-19 plague is open, straightforward and the information are precise, the Wuhan city base camp for COVID-19 scourge counteraction and control built up a gathering for pestilence related huge information and epidemiological examinations. City experts for wellbeing, sickness control, open security, common issues, legal undertakings and insights have pooled their endeavors to analyze the COVID-19 case data in the Wuhan city COVID-19 pandemic counteraction and control enormous information framework, the civil memorial service framework, the city medical clinic authority's COVID-19 data framework, and the metropolitan novel coronavirus nucleic basic analysis framework to expel twofold included cases and fill in missed cases. Meaning to leave no COVID-19 case undocumented, the specialists have attempted to gather full data from all scourge related areas, including fever facilities, emergency clinics, temporary medical clinics, isolate locales, networks with COVID-19 cases, and unique destinations administrated by open security, legal and common issues specialists, for example, jails, confinement focuses and old consideration habitats, gather full close to home data on all COVID-19 cases, and screen and confirm each case with wellbeing organizations, networks and neighborhoods, essential level police headquarters, businesses and groups of COVID-19 patients. The complete number of affirmed COVID-19 cases in Wuhan as of the finish of April 16 was amended up by 325 to 50,333, and the quantity of fatalities up by 1,290 to 3,869. 

The information errors are because of the accompanying reasons: First, a flooding number of patients at the beginning time of the plague overpowered clinical assets and the confirmation limit of clinical establishments. A few patients passed on at home without having been treated in medical clinics. Second, during the tallness of their treating endeavors, clinics were working past their abilities and clinical staff were distracted with sparing and treating patients, bringing about overdue, missed and mixed up revealing. Third, because of a fast increment of assigned clinics for treating COVID-19 patients, including those regulated by services, Hubei Province, Wuhan city and its locale, those partnered to organizations, just as private emergency clinics and stopgap emergency clinics, a couple of clinical establishments were not connected to the pandemic data system and neglected to report their information in time. Fourth, the enlisted data of a portion of the perished patients was inadequate, and there were reiterations and errors in the revealing. 

Life and individuals are what matter most. Each life lost in the scourge isn't just a misfortune to their family yet additionally a misery for the city. Our true sympathies go to the groups of the individuals who perished in the COVID-19 scourge, and we express profound distress to the comrades and clinical laborers who lost their lives in the pestilence. 

The Wuhan Municipal Headquarters for COVID-19 Epidemic Prevention and Control