Hubei Daily Numbers 2 hours late


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added 14,840 new cases of pneumonia (including 13332 clinically diagnosed cases)

242 new deaths (including 135 clinically diagnosed cases)

802 new hospital discharges




total of 48206 cases of new coronary pneumonia (including 13332 clinically diagnosed cases)

A total of 3441 patients were discharged

33,693 patients are still being treated in the hospital, of which 5647 are critically ill and 1437 are critically ill.

77,308 people were still under medical observation.


Why the numbers are wonky:

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 Office of the State Administration of Traditional Chinese Medicine issued the "Diagnosis and Treatment Plan for Pneumonia of New Coronavirus (Version) "adds" clinical diagnosis "to the case diagnosis classification in Hubei Province, so that patients can receive standardized treatment according to confirmed cases as early as possible to further improve the success rate of treatment. According to the plan, Hubei Province has recently conducted investigations on suspected cases and revised the diagnosis results, and newly diagnosed patients were diagnosed according to the new diagnosis classification. In order to be consistent with the classification of case diagnosis issued by other provinces across the country, starting today, Hubei Province will include the number of clinically diagnosed cases into the number of confirmed cases for publication.


Comment: So, they are adding clinically diagnosed people in to the numbers now. That is, not tested and confirmed, but using clinical criteria only.