Virus death toll soars as China changes counting methods

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China's official death toll from the new coronavirus spiked dramatically, after authorities changed their counting methods

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"It is not clear if the problem up to now, on this issue, was lack of transparency or simply bad medical practice." On Thursday, the leaders of Hubei and Wuhan were sacked, the highest-profile political casualties of the crisis, after the province's top health officials were fired. "I guess if the situation in Hubei is a long way from being under control, the party should be worried about instability, because you are literally going to have tens of millions of people confined indoors at least for another month," he said.

 

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What? How does the counting method change ? It’s either dead or not dead.

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