The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) announced that the number of deaths in China from COVID-19 had increased from 30 as of Jan. 7, to 60,000, on Jan. 14. Lew Mon-hung, a former member of the CCP political advisory body, questioned the figures and revealed that there was a coffin shortage.
On Jan. 7, a month after the CCP scraped all its COVID-19 quarantine measures for travelers. China’s National Health Commission (NHC) reported that 120,000 had been confirmed infected with COVID-19, with 30 deaths.
