New COVID-19 Cases Surge by Nearly 15,000 in China’s Hubei Province After Officials Change Classification System
The World Health Organization and public health experts agree COVID-19 is the best name for the disease
The vice president of a Beijing hospital and one of the experts working on the coronavirus response told state broadcaster CCTV that the move is in line with China’s National Health Commission’s latest diagnostic guidelines, reports“When doctors diagnose pneumonia, they can only get the etiology of the disease 20 to 30 percent of the time. We have to rely on clinical diagnosis 70 to 80 percent of the time.
But experts say that the case count in the rest of China could also be much higher than reported. “It is unclear what the extent of diagnostic testing in China is outside of Hubei province,” Chiu says.left Wuhan before officials implemented a lockdown of the city on Jan. 23 to attempt to halt the spread of the virus. Tsang of SOAS’ China Institute, says that means that there could be a huge gap in the number of officially reported statistics.
On Thursday, officials in Hubei had reported just over 1,600 new cases—the lowest figure since the beginning of February. Experts said the declines were promising signals that China’s lockdown of tens of millions of people may be working to contain the spread of the deadly coronavirus.It is not clear over what time period the newly announced cases were detected.
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