The outbreak is about nine times larger than the 2002-2003 SARS outbreak, but it has been far less deadly.
The World Health Organization reported on Tuesday that more than 73,000 people in 25 countries have become infected with the new coronavirus.
China started reporting clinically diagnosed cases—those that are confirmed by a doctor and not a laboratory test—to the WHO on Thursday. The initial case count was 13,332, but that number rose on Tuesday. However, WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus didn't share specific data about how many of the 1,800 new cases were clinical diagnoses.
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