BEIJING, Feb 14 — The Chinese province at the centre of the coronavirus outbreak reported a record rise in deaths and thousands more infections using a broader definition yesterday, while Japan became the third place outside mainland China to suffer a fatality. The epidemic has given China's...
Friday, 14 Feb 2020 07:05 AM MYT
With China's streets, restaurants and flower markets bare, a miserable Valentine's Day was expected today. However, the big jump in China's reported cases reflects a decision by authorities there to reclassify a backlog of suspected cases by using patients' chest images, and is not necessarily the “tip of an iceberg” of a wider epidemic, a top World Health Organisation official said yesterday.
“Outside the cases on the Diamond Princess cruise ship we are not seeing a dramatic increase in transmission outside China,” the WHO's Ryan said.
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