They don’t want us to see the hundreds of dead all at once. They want to drip, drip, drip out the numbers until everybody forgets about it and onto the next news item.
Maybe they will do it like the military does when they lose a bunch of troops on a secret mission and report deaths back to families one at a time as being from accidents in Yokohama, or Korea, or various other places. I ran into that type of operation as a member of a Security unit in the military in 1969.