Markets bid as China blows smoke into COVID-19 numbers

Friday, 14 February 2020

China has issued its full COVID-19 body count numbers now for yesterday. Here’s the update:

At 04:00 on February 13th, 31 provinces (autonomous regions, municipalities) and the Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps reported an increase of 5,090 confirmed cases, 2174 severe cases, and 121 death cases (116 in Hubei, 2 in Heilongjiang). Cases, one each in Anhui, Henan, and Chongqing), with 2,450 new suspected cases.

1081 new cases were cured and discharged on the same day, and 26905 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.