Here is something alarming: Epoch-Time run an article titled:
Twenty One Million Fewer Cellphone Users in China May Suggest a High CCP Virus Death Toll
"The number of Chinese cellphone users dropped by 21 million in the past three months, Beijing authorities announced on March 19. Deaths due to the CCP virus may have contributed to the high number of account closings."
Sorry, I am not allowed to post the full article.
This is beyond people's imagination. But with the tightly controlled iron curtain in China, you can't rule it out completely. Right at the start of the Pandemic the regime hurriedly passed laws to ban the sharing of information that is not published by the state. The punishment: from imprisonment up to death.
For people who know the regime better historically wouldn't be much surprised. The regime did the same thing in every disaster in China's past 70 years.
Why? The smaller the casualty, the securer the regime's power.