Is Wuhan the first city to launch 5G?

This table presents the top ten (10) countries with the 5G network and the cases of Coronavirus and deaths recorded from these countries. You would notice South Korea is the number 1 country (by number of cities) using 5G network as of today. They have 85 cities currently live on the spectrum. In fact, the country has over 2 million 5G network subscribers. As of June 2019, as early and fast adopters of 5G, they account for more than 75% of the global population of 5G users. As of March 2020, they have about 5.4 million 5G subscribers (10% of its population is on 5G!!! the highest so far).

You would also notice that South Korea has 10,156 cases of COVID19 (and 177 deaths). They are not even among the top ten countries with Coronavirus. If truly the stories about 5G base stations making people fall on the streets and causing their deaths due to its radiation, then there should have been lots of reports about this from South Korea!

China is number 2 with 57 cities Live on 5G and a total of 20.6 million subscribers. (1% of its population), the USA is number 3 with 50 Cities on 5G with about 8 million subscribers (2% of its population).

It would interest you that as at February 2020, Iran, Belgium, Netherlands and Canada have not yet fully launched 5G on a commercial scale and yet they have got frightening numbers of COVID19 cases as at April 3, 2020:

Iran -53,193, Belgium-16,770, Netherlands -15,723 and Canada-12,537. These four (4) countries are among the top ten (10) countries hit by the Coronavirus pandemic and yet no 5G launch???!!

We decided to run a correlation analysis on the number of cities on 5G (from the top 10 countries) and cases of COVID19 infections and deaths. The results show VERY WEAK correlation hence there is not even any objective basis for us to start associating 5G networks with COVID19. So there is no correlation not to talk of causation.

Should we be concerned about 5G?

So many videos and audio have been circulating on pages of social media concerning the dangers of 5G. There is a particular one supposedly showing a 5G tower being torn down in China because people feared it was causing the COVID-19 pandemic.

Whereas, the footage actually was in August 2019 (before the outbreak of COVID-19 in Wuhan, China) and shows anti-surveillance protesters tearing down a “smart” lamppost in Hong Kong.

As with new technologies, studies have been made and still ongoing on the negative effects of 5G. The only major effect peculiar to the 5G as of today is the production of heat. More studies are expected and definitely we should expect health challenges that would need to be mitigated. No matter the future outcomes, the benefits will outweigh any identified challenges.