WUHAN, China—Authorities in Wuhan, the coronavirus pandemic’s original center, revised the local death toll upward by 50%, publicly acknowledging for the first time that they had previously omitted many fatalities, including people who died at home.
Confirmed cases world-wide have passed 2.1 million, and deaths have topped 140,000, according to data from Johns Hopkins University.
About a third of global infections are in the U.S., which has also logged more than 31,000 deaths.
The number of reported deaths in the U.S. from the new coronavirus spiked to nearly double the prior record, as governors extended their lockdown orders.
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