First, the news from China: At 04:00 on February 23, 31 provinces (autonomous regions, municipalities) and the Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps reported 409 new confirmed cases, 150 new deaths (149 in Hubei and 1 in Hainan), and new suspected cases. 620 cases. On the same day, 1846 new cases were cured and discharged, 16758

The traffic stats are still very weak: So are wider indicators, from Capital Economcs: A little life in empty apartment sales thanks to crazy incentives but otherwise nada.

First, from Beijing: At 04:00 on February 20, 31 provinces (autonomous regions and municipalities) and the Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps reported 889 new confirmed cases and 118 new deaths (115 in Hubei, and 1 in Zhejiang, Chongqing, and Yunnan). There were 1614 new suspected cases. On the same day, 2109 new cases were cured

Before COVID-19 that is. New yuan loans for January came in at 5.07tr with banks at 3.34tr: Shadow credit is rebounding slowly as Bejing becomes desperate: M2 is still struggling at 8.4%: While broad credit is becalmed at 10.9%: This is only enough credit growth to see GDP slowly slow. Next month we’ll see the

Via Yonhap: South Korea declared the southeastern cities of Daegu and Cheongdo are “special care zones” Friday as a cluster of coronavirus cases have been reported there in recent days. On Thursday, the country confirmed its first death of a COVID-19 patient in the southeastern city of Cheongdo, with the total number of confirmed cases

There some signs it is getting worse not better. If anything, traffic congestion has trailed off: Capital Economics has more real time activity charts:   It’s going to be a slow and halting recovery at high risk of reversal as viral outbreaks return. Links from Sinocism: 1. The outbreak Sharp fall in new Chinese coronavirus

Beijing has released its latest virus data: At 04:00 on February 19, 31 provinces (autonomous regions, municipalities) and the Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps reported 394 new confirmed cases and 114 new deaths (108 in Hubei, Hebei, Shanghai, Fujian, Shandong, and Yunnan). And 1 in Shaanxi), and 1277 suspected cases were newly added. 1779 new

South Korea is a sudden COVID-19 hotspot with the KCDC just reporting 51 news cases today to hit 82 in total. Total transmissions outside China are looking a little rampy: Still doubling every six days, five days including Diamond Princess: It ain’t over.

As noted earlier, China has today reversed its previous revision of coronavirus definition and added still more confusion with new ones. Take Hubei today: From 04:00 to 24:00 on February 19, 2020 , 349 new cases of new coronary pneumonia were confirmed in the province , including: 615 in Wuhan, 5 in Xiantao, 3 in Shiyan, 3 in Suizhou,

A very little. The big five remain mostly shut: Similar in other indicators: The Global Times reports on a scene that must be replayed all over China right now: Beijing district official confirmed on Tuesday that one of its government employees has been infected with the novel coronavirus (COVID-19), causing 69 more in quarantine, but

Via Straits Times: South Korea reported 15 new cases of the coronavirus on Wednesday (Feb 19), bringing the total number of people infected in the country to 46, the Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (KCDC) said in a statement. Of those, 13 were in Daegu and neighbouring North Gyeongsang province, with 11 of them

If you believe the CCP then one ship in Japan is now more infected daily than all of China outside of Hubei. Here’s the latest from the COVID-19 elmination algo: At 04:00 on February 18, 31 provinces (autonomous regions, municipalities) and the Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps reported 1749 new confirmed cases, 236 severe cases,

Because it is still freakin’ nailed shut. Via Capital Economics: New York Times does some numbers: Half of China’s population is facing new travel restrictions. At least 150 million people in China — over 10 percent of the country’s population — are living under government restrictions on how often they can leave their homes, The

It was already slowing in January pre-crisis, with monthly price growth virtually stalled at 0.2% and annual 6.3%: The balance of cities with stalled or falling prices versus gainers is now quite even: Lower tiers have lost a lot of momentum: Then along came COVID-19 and delivered this: Then this, at Global Times: China’s leading

It’s pretty clear now what the CCP plan is. Allow the COVID-19 pre-programmed robot to run the fake numbers to zero then demand the world open up. If the world catches it, that’s all to the good. Today’s update: At 04:00 on February 17, 31 provinces (autonomous regions, municipalities) and the Xinjiang Production and Construction

When you have a lot of COVID-19 cases, is it because you have a poor hospital system? Or is it because you have a really good one. Cases: Versus hospital efficiency: Source: World Health Organisation For reference, Australia rates 32, US 44, China 144.

Let’s start with the weekend virus updates: At 04:00 on February 15th, 31 provinces (autonomous regions, municipalities) and the Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps reported 2009 new confirmed cases, 219 severe cases, and 142 death cases (139 in Hubei and 2 in Sichuan). Cases, 1 case in Hunan), with 1918 new suspected cases. On the

This is worth sharing, from Zero Hedge: Alibaba Group’s CEO Daniel Zhang warned Thursday that the Covid-19 outbreak in China is developing into a “black swan event” that could have severe consequences for China and the global economy. Zhang told analysts during a conference call that the company’s fiscal third-quarter results beat expectations but warned of near-term impacts related

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

You must listen to the CCP embassy: “Only Australia and a small number of countries have taken such extreme measures which are overreaction indeed.” “We urge the Australian side to assess objectively and rationally the prevention and control measures taken by the Chinese side and the actual risk faced by Australian side.” Here is the

Here are the ten biggest cities courtesy of Tom Tom: I think it safe to say that if it’s the top ten then it’s everywhere. This is even more important given the CCP ordered everyone back to work this week. Fat chance. Why would you go when if you do you’ll get hosed with Round-up:

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

Hubei just unveiled what we already knew in a massive jump in COVID-19 cases: With the deepening of understanding of new coronavirus pneumonia and the accumulation of experience in diagnosis and treatment, in view of the characteristics of the epidemic in Hubei Province, the General Office of the National Health and Health Commission and the

China is currently switched off: How quickly can it turn itself back on? Even in the bull case, not as fast as markets are pricing, via Bloomberg: Economists are turning more pessimistic over the chances of a speedy recovery for China’s virus-hit economy, as evidence mounts that the disruption will be deeper and more long-lasting