There were 171,000 cremations registered in the eastern province of Zhejiang in the first quarter, well above the 99,000 in the same period in year before, Chinese financial media outlet Caixin reported, citing official data released by the province. The official statement was later removed from the internet, according to Caixin.
[…] However, that number was widely seen as an underestimate because the government narrowed the criteria for classifying deaths caused by Covid-19 late last year. An estimate in January by Zuo-Feng Zhang, chair of the department of epidemiology at the Fielding School of Public Health at University of California, Los Angeles, put the number of deaths at about 900,000 in those five weeks.
[…] Although Zhejiang province deleted the first quarter data from its website, Caixin cited an unnamed local government official as saying that “some” of the deleted data was accurate and that cremations increased mainly because of the coronavirus. [Source]
据中国财经媒体财新网援引该省公布的官方数据报道，今年第一季度，该省登记火葬量为17.1万起，远高于去年同期的9.9万起。 据财新网报道，该官方声明随后从互联网上删除。
[…] 然而，这个数字被广泛认为是低估的，因为政府去年年底缩小了 Covid-19 造成的死亡分类标准。 加州大学洛杉矶分校菲尔丁公共卫生学院流行病学系主任张作峰一月份估计，这五周内的死亡人数约为 90 万。
[…]尽管浙江省从其网站上删除了第一季度的数据，但财新援引一位不愿透露姓名的当地政府官员的话说，“部分”删除的数据是准确的，火葬数量增加主要是因为冠状病毒。 [来源]