Coronaviris keeps getting worse in China

Tuesday 4 February 2020

Today’s update fresh from Beijing:

At 04:00 on February 3rd, 31 provinces (autonomous regions, municipalities) and the Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps reported 3235 newly confirmed cases (2345 cases in Hubei Province) and 492 severe cases (442 cases in Hubei Province). An increase of 64 death cases (64 cases in Hubei Province), 157 newly cured cases (101 cases in Hubei Province), and 5072 new suspected cases (3182 cases in Hubei Province).

As of 24:00 on February 3, the National Health and Health Commission has received a total of 20,438 confirmed cases (2 nuclear reductions in Heilongjiang Province) of 31 provinces (autonomous regions, municipalities) and the Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps. There are currently 2788 severe cases with cumulative deaths. There were 425 cases, 632 cases were cured and discharged, and there were 23214 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.