Anonymous ID: f63e03 Feb. 13, 2020, 6:32 a.m. No.8123582   🗄️.is 🔗kun

>>8123564

New diagnostic method is able to find cases more quickly.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-health-idUSKBN207025

BEIJING (Reuters) - The Chinese province at the epicentre of the coronavirus outbreak reported a record rise in deaths and thousands more cases on Thursday under a new diagnostic method, raising fresh questions about the scale of the crisis.

 

The sharp rise in the headline number of deaths and infections unnerved world markets, as traders halted a recent rally in stocks and retreated back to the safety of government bonds and gold.

 

Health officials in China’s central province of Hubei said 242 people had died from the flu-like virus on Wednesday, the fastest rise in the daily count since the pathogen was identified in December.

 

That took total deaths in China from the newly discovered virus to 1,367, up 254 from the previous day, the National Health Commission said.

 

The spike in numbers came a day after markets were cheered when China reported its lowest number of new cases in two weeks, bolstering a forecast by the country’s senior medical adviser that the epidemic could end by April.

 

Hubei had previously only allowed infections to be confirmed by RNA tests, which can take days to process. RNA, or ribonucleic acid, carries genetic information allowing for identification of organisms like viruses.

 

But it has begun using quicker computerised tomography (CT) scans, which reveal lung infections, the Hubei health commission said, to confirm virus cases and isolate them faster.

 

As a result, another new 14,840 cases were reported in the central province on Thursday, from 2,015 new cases nationwide a day earlier. But excluding cases confirmed using the new methods, the number of new cases rose by only 1,508.

 

About 60,000 people have now been confirmed to have the virus, the vast majority of them in China.

 

The new diagnostic procedure could explain the spike in deaths, said Raina McIntyre, head of biosecurity research at the Kirby Institute at the University of New South Wales.

 

“Presumably, there are deaths which occurred in people who did not have a lab diagnosis but did have a CT,” she told Reuters. “It is important that these also be counted.”

 

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Anonymous ID: f63e03 Feb. 13, 2020, 6:50 a.m. No.8123694   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>3782

>>8123636

I saw that yesterday. I finally managed to built out a database and enter all the rows into that. I did a simple search on it and what you have there looks right to me, although I found 31 records. Pete, Peter, petere, peterpaul.

 

I also saw that the resource in the bread is no longer functioning. Is there a need to have this available again?