NHC in China stated there were under 2,600 COVID-19 deaths before March 28 , 2020 .
Some social media users have used the numbers of urns returned to families and the number of cremations conducted in Wuhan to estimate that 42,000 to 46,000 people may have succumbed to the virus in Wuhan , compared to the official , NHC-reported COVID-19 toll of 2,548 in Wuhan as of 27 March .
2019–20 coronavirus pandemic in mainland China