China said more than 1,500 people who were infected with the new coronavirus but haven't shown symptoms were excluded from its national tally of confirmed cases, as questions arise about its accounting of the infectious disease that burst into a world-wide pandemic.
The Latest on the Coronavirus More than 800,000 cases across 178 countries and regions.
China says it will begin reporting infection cases for people with no symptoms.
Zhong Nanshan, a prominent Chinese respiratory expert, told state television recently that he didn't believe China has a large number of those carriers, because otherwise the number of confirmed cases would be much higher.
Before releasing the number of asymptomatic cases on Tuesday, China had reported 81,518 confirmed infections.
In March alone, the number of reported coronavirus infections world-wide jumped nearly nine times from 86,000 confirmed cases on the last day of February, while fatalities surged more than 10-fold, Johns Hopkins data showed.
Both, like the U.S., have surpassed China in total confirmed cases.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/chinas-coronavirus-count-excluded-infected-people-with-no-symptoms-11585650226?mod=hp_lead_pos1
The Latest on the Coronavirus More than 800,000 cases across 178 countries and regions.
China says it will begin reporting infection cases for people with no symptoms.
Zhong Nanshan, a prominent Chinese respiratory expert, told state television recently that he didn't believe China has a large number of those carriers, because otherwise the number of confirmed cases would be much higher.
Before releasing the number of asymptomatic cases on Tuesday, China had reported 81,518 confirmed infections.
In March alone, the number of reported coronavirus infections world-wide jumped nearly nine times from 86,000 confirmed cases on the last day of February, while fatalities surged more than 10-fold, Johns Hopkins data showed.
Both, like the U.S., have surpassed China in total confirmed cases.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/chinas-coronavirus-count-excluded-infected-people-with-no-symptoms-11585650226?mod=hp_lead_pos1
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