EXCERPT:
PATON WALSH: "The documents provide a number of key revelations about the province of Hubei, home to the epicenter city of Wuhan. Firstly, some of the death tolls were off. The worst day in these reports is February the 17th where these say 196 people who were confirmed cases died, but that day they only announced 93."
PATON WALSH (voice-over): "China was also circulating internally bigger, more detailed totals for new cases in Hubei, for one day in February recording internally nearly 6,000 new cases, some diagnosed by tests, others clinically by doctors, and some suspected because of symptoms and contact but all pretty serious. Yet publicly that day, China reported nationwide about 2,500 new confirmed cases. The rest were downplayed. In an ongoing tally of suspected cases, that meant patients that doctors had diagnosed as being seriously ill sounded like they were in doubt. They did later improve the criteria."