UK confirmed coronavirus deaths (3,605) have overtaken China's confirmed deaths (3,332). A sad milestone.
Both numbers are likely underestimates due to lack of testing in the early stages of the outbreak. Scale of the underestimation hard to judge. https://uk.reuters.com/article/uk-health-coronavirus-britain-toll/uk-coronavirus-death-toll-rises-to-3605-up-23-in-a-day-idUKKBN21L1ZU

This thread refers to some principles on how the death rate in Wuhan might be estimated, suggesting that official numbers are unlikely to be off by tens of thousands https://twitter.com/JeremyKonyndyk/status/1245406094232563712