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China raises total coronavirus death toll to 4,632 after Wuhan data review

FILE PHOTO: A man wearing a face mask is seen under a bridge of Yangtze river in Wuhan after the lockdown was lifted in Wuhan, capital of Hubei province and China's epicentre of the novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak, April 15, 2020. REUTERS/Aly Song

China's total coronavirus death toll has been revised up to 4,632, up from 3,342, following the release of new data from Wuhan, the epicentre of the outbreak, the country's health authority said on Friday.

Mi Feng, a spokesman for the National Health Commission, told a media briefing that China had also raised the total number of cases of infection by the end of April 16 to 82,692, up from 82,367.

China's Wuhan said on Friday morning that it had raised its death toll by 1,290, and its total number of confirmed cases by 325, after a "comprehensive review" of its epidemic data.

(Reporting by Luoyan Liu and David Stanway; Editing by Toby Chopra)

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