Spike in China virus cases doesn't show big shift in epidemic: WHO

‘Outside cases on the Diamond Princess cruise ship, we are not seeing dramatic increases in transmission outside China,’ said Mike Ryan, the head of WHO's health emergencies program, speaking on the coronavirus outbreak

GENEVA - The spike in cases reported from China reflects reclassifying a backlog of suspect cases using patients’ chest images and not necessarily the “tip of an iceberg” of a wider epidemic, a top World Health Organization official said on Thursday.

“We’ve seen this spike in the number of cases reported in China, but this does not represent a significant change in the trajectory of the outbreak,” he said. Cases are not rising dramatically outside China apart from among passengers on a cruise liner now quarantined off the Japanese port of Yokohama, Ryan said.

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