By March 27 , the official number of death due to COVID-19 provided by the NHC in Wuhan was 2,548 .
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 .
2019–20 coronavirus pandemic in mainland China