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In a testament to enduring friendship, this year marks the 75th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between Bulgaria and China
Leaked documents from China show the country mishandled the early COVID-19 pandemic through misleading public data and three-week delays in test results, CNN reported Monday.
A whistleblower, who worked in the Chinese health care system, provided 117 pages of internal documents from the Hubei Provincial Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to CNN.
The files, which CNN had verified by six experts, showed how the region struggled to manage the coronavirus between October 2019 and April 2020 - a critical time period in which the virus spread from China to cause a worldwide pandemic.
China has repeatedly denied allegations from the U.S. and other governments that it purposefully concealed information about the coronavirus. CNN noted that the documents do not show an intentional withholding of information, but they do indicate that there were deviations between what officials believed and what they reported to the public.
On Feb. 10, Chinese officials publicized 2,478 new confirmed cases, making the total worldwide number reach beyond 40,000. But in a file labeled "internal document, please keep confidential," the Hubei Provincial CDC recorded 5,918 new cases on that date, with 2,345 "confirmed cases," 1,772 "clinically diagnosed cases" and 1,796 "suspected cases."
A report from early March indicated that the average time between the start of symptoms to a confirmed diagnosis amounted to 23.3 days. Experts told CNN this timeline would have impeded officials' ability to respond to the spread of the virus.
As of Monday evening, the pandemic has led to more than 63.1 million cases and 1.4 million deaths worldwide, with 13.5 million cases and 267,844 deaths being in the U.S., according to data from Johns Hopkins University./msn
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