China confirms drop in new coronavirus cases as death tally touches 2,345

death toll in China from new coronavirus outbreak soared to 109 bringing total number of death count to 2345, according to National Health Commission on February 22. Ar 397 new cases were confirmed in China which plummeted from nearly 900 officially reported Friday, bringing total number of infected cases to over 76,000. drop in new cases of vel coronavirus came as authorities in Hubei province were directed to revise figures to clear any confusions around data. National Health Commission said on Saturday that number of new cases nationwide for February 19 was revised up to 820 up from 394 earlier reported. It also justed total confirmed cases for February 20 by over 400 cases to 75,891. 

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Revised Methods

China on February 20 has reportedly changed method of counting patients with new coronavirus that will w include only those diagsed by sophisticated laboratory testing. According to media reports, China h earlier changed method of counting patients from Hubei province and its capital Wuhan city, as it allowed people diagsed via clinical methods including lung imaging to be ded in count in dition to those confirmed by laboratories. As per reports, Chinese authorities have said that change was me last week due to a backlog of patients awaiting nucleic acid tests whose condition was deteriorating and it became hard for m to test patients quickly. Authorities w say that situation in Hubei has changed and re is backlog of patients who need nucleic acid testing. latest development came as China reported biggest drop in new cases of virus in nearly a month. 

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More than 2300 died

According to media reports, new coronavirus has claimed more than 2,300 lives and has infected more than 77, 000 people in China since it first broke out in December last year. United States Center for Disease Control (CDC) h earlier said that virus has alrey spre to 27 countries, including as far as western Europe. As per reports, coronavirus originated from a seafood market in China's Wuhan city, believed epicentre of disease. Media reports also stated that animals were being tred illegally in market from where disease originated.

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