Top University in Wuhan Reported 149 Deaths Since the Onset of COVID Pandemic

Medical workers transfer a patient out of the intensive care unit at Zhongnan Hospital of Wuhan University in Wuhan in central China's Hubei Province. on Jan. 24, 2020. Zong Qi/Xinhua via AP

In the past two months, Zhongnan University of Economics and Law (ZUEL) in Wuhan has published at least 10 obituaries. From the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic in early 2020 through May 28, the university reported 149 deaths of faculty and staff.

In December 2022, in the midst of a new COVID-19 outbreak in China, the university reported the highest number of annual deaths in a decade, with 48 published obituaries, 18 of which occurred in December alone.