than it was previously reported we have heard reports of people being cremated without being great ustad and things like that this is an admission that something has been going on that that that there were cases that have not been included in the officer statistics of course we do not know what extent this new figure is accurate and what the real death toll was but it comes at a moment when china is under thiis criticism for its cover up from the u.s. but also from the french president mccraw who has criticized the cover up so it might be something like a gesture towards these critics to take some wind out of the sails of the critics to give a new figure. so this previously clearly under reported figure will not be used permanently against china but we cannot say really what the real extent is all the figures from china have to be treated with caution. bond and china correspondent is building out there to india now where 1300000000 people are halfway through a 6 week national lockdown the government insists that the restrictions are the key to breaking the chain of transmission boss the