Daily coronavirus China update

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Via Beijing comes the latest update:

At 04:00 on February 9th, 31 provinces (autonomous regions and municipalities) and the Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps reported that 3062 new cases were confirmed (2618 in Hubei), 296 cases were severely added (258 in Hubei), There were 97 deaths (91 in Hubei, 2 in Anhui, 1 each in Heilongjiang, Jiangxi, Hainan, and Gansu), and 4008 new suspected cases (2272 in Hubei).

On the same day, 632 newly discharged cases were cured (356 in Hubei), and 29,307 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.