Exactly, the number of cases we are seeing were reported by hospitals and in bigger countries like China and India is is impossible to get accurate numbers because they are locked down and not everyone died in the home has been reported to governments and hospitals yet so we can accept the delay on the figures is okay.
the point is its not an intentional cover up. its a fact of life that statistical monitoring agencies do not go door to door testing daily.
yes some countries will show low numbers(but accurately checked numbers in hospitals) whilst the numbers not able to be accurately checked will get tallied up at a later date may be even higher
yes africa is another one that will have a large amount of deaths outside of hospitals once they can finally get around to it.
many countries with poor hospital care, services just bypass the death certifying process and go straight to mass burials
this does not mean the virus is fake and not real
this does not mean government cover up
its just lack of ability to do everything required to get accurate results in a daily timescale that media want all this info
china did not hide anything. they just couldnt report a pandemic on december 19th (day after patient zero admission to hospital)
because it takes time to diagnose something new. it takes time for lab results. it takes time for a number of recipient patients to manifest with symptoms and come to hospital to then get checked and to find the common links.
it then takes time for people to contract it not from the initial source for them to realise that its not a localised thing.
china made an annoucement within 3 weeks of patient zero
all the ata was sent out. heck even interviews with patient zero after recovery were done by multiple countries
the real problem is although the world found out january 9th.
countries are still doing repatiation flights even now. yep 3 months later.
most countries only went into lockdown 1 month ago.. yep 2 months later
china new the problem and reported it when sure. and they went into lockdown in 2 weeks (late january)
they had extra capacity hospitals built within 4 weeks of the international announcement
yet places like UK/US waited until march before prepping