China coronavirus cases ramp again

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At 04:00 on February 2nd, 31 provinces (autonomous regions and municipalities) and the Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps reported 2829 newly diagnosed cases (2103 cases in Hubei Province) and 186 new severe cases (139 cases in Hubei Province). There were 57 more deaths (56 in Hubei Province and 1 in Chongqing City), 147 newly cured cases (80 in Hubei Province), and 5173 new suspected cases (3260 Hubei Province).

As of 24:00 on February 2, the National Health and Health Commission has received a total of 17,205 confirmed cases (31 cases in Beijing and 1 case in Jiangxi Province) of confirmed cases in 31 provinces (autonomous regions, municipalities) and the Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps. There were 2296 cases, a total of 361 deaths, a total of 475 cases cured and discharged, and a total of 21,558 suspected cases.

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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.