As China heads back to work, coronavirus is out of control

The latest update and charts:

At 04:00 on February 6th, 31 provinces (autonomous regions, municipalities) and the Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps reported 3,143 newly confirmed cases (2,447 in Hubei), and 387 newly cured cases (184 in Hubei), which were cancelled on the same day. There were 26,762 close contacts of medical observations. 962 new cases of severe cases (918 in Hubei), 73 new cases of death (69 in Hubei, 1 in Jilin, Henan, Guangdong, and Hainan), and 4833 suspected cases (2622 in Hubei) ).

As of 24:00 on February 6, 31 provinces (autonomous regions, municipalities) and the Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps had reported a total of 31,161 confirmed cases, a total of 1,540 cured and discharged, and 28,985 confirmed cases (among which 4,821 were severe cases), with cumulative deaths There are 636 cases and 26359 suspected cases. A total of 314,028 close contacts were traced, and 186,045 close contacts were still in medical observation.

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David Llewellyn-Smith is Chief Strategist at the MB Fund and MB Super. David is the founding publisher and editor of MacroBusiness and was the founding publisher and global economy editor of The Diplomat, the Asia Pacific’s leading geo-politics and economics portal. He is also a former gold trader and economic commentator at The Sydney Morning Herald, The Age, the ABC and Business Spectator. He is the co-author of The Great Crash of 2008 with Ross Garnaut and was the editor of the second Garnaut Climate Change Review.