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That positive tone was echoed in a statement of Germany’s health minister on Friday as he described national efforts to combat the pandemic. “The outbreak has - as of today - become controllable and manageable again,” Jens Spahn said, adding that the local health care system had “at no time been overwhelmed”. Germany has had proportionately fewer fatalities than other countries hit by the outbreak but has always urged caution. The new language marks a more upbeat mood.
Wuhan toll revisited
China’s Wuhan city, the epicentre of the global coronavirus outbreak that has now caused more than 143,000 deaths globally, said it had revised up its total death toll by 50%, addressing incorrect reporting, delays and omissions of cases. That would take China’s total deaths to over 4,500. The revision comes as U.S. and other officials question the accuracy of China’s tallies - but also as those countries hit hardest by the pandemic have widely varying methodologies for counting their dead. The World Health Organization in Geneva has so far not commented on the Chinese revision.
In India, distrust undermines efforts
Efforts by health workers to identify and track cases have been a source of suspicion in India where there is a deep-rooted distrust of Narendra Modi’s Hindu nationalist government. The doubts have been fueled notably by a new citizenship law that critics say discriminates against Muslims and a crackdown by India in the Muslim-majority territory of Kashmir. Some Muslims believe health workers are secretly collecting data for a proposed database to identify illegal immigrants, according to community leaders and interviews with residents.
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