Is there an actual source for these numbers?
No, I dont mean a blog or a twitter account either.
Yeah Tencent - if you read Mandarin - they were trying to please the local authorities with the first numbers by making them low, but the authorities not pleased so they lowered them again. As long as the official death rate equals 2.1%, all other numbers are OK with the CCP.
The real numbers - given the horribly extreme measures now in effect - are (and I’m guessing here) likely in the 100,000 dead range and rapidly climbing.
but, to put you at ease:
its just the flu, its not a bio-weapon, and has not effected the rest of the world in any extraordinary manner, so no worries ... zzzzzzzzzz
At the Hopkins site you can sign up for daily updates, if you would like to get them.
The European CDC has pretty good information as well.