China Economy

Why did China’s COVID-19 cases suddenly rocket?

David Llewellyn-Smith
Thursday, 13 February 2020
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Via Global Times:

Central China’s Hubei Province, the epicenter of the novel coronavirus pneumonia (COVID-19) outbreak, began to include the number of clinically diagnosed cases in its daily update for the first time on Thursday. According to the country’s leading epidemiologists, the move was designed to help fix loopholes in curbing the spread of the epidemic.

Zeng Guang, chief epidemiologist with the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CCDC), made the remarks during an exclusive interview with the Global Times on Thursday morning, following Hubei Province’s report of 14,840 new cases including 13,332 clinically diagnosed cases of COVID-19 as of midnight on Wednesday.

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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.