CCP COVID-19 spruikbot drops cases below cruise ship

Wednesday, 19 February 2020

If you believe the CCP then one ship in Japan is now more infected daily than all of China outside of Hubei. Here’s the latest from the COVID-19 elmination algo:

At 04:00 on February 18, 31 provinces (autonomous regions, municipalities) and the Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps reported 1749 new confirmed cases, 236 severe cases, and 136 new deaths (132 in Hubei, Heilongjiang, 1 in Shandong, Guangdong, and Guizhou respectively), with 1185 new suspected cases.

On the same day, 1,824 cases were cured and discharged, and 25,014 close contacts were lifted from 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.