Oh. In other words, they’re now admitting they left out who knows how many thousands of cases and media who didn’t question them happily ran with us having the greatest number of cases.

Quote:China will include asymptomatic coronavirus carriers in its daily figures from Wednesday, its National Health Commission said on Tuesday.
Officials said the new measures would help to address growing public concerns about the risks of infection with Covid-19, the disease caused by the virus, brought about by these silent carriers.

The commission added that it already required local health workers to report these cases through the central communicable disease report system.
The commission also revealed for the first time that as of Monday, there were 1,541 asymptomatic carriers under medical observation in mainland China, including 205 imported cases.

That compared with 2,161 Covid-19 patients who are still hospitalised and another 183 suspected cases.

The announcement follows Monday’s meeting of the central government’s Covid-19 leading group chaired by Premier Li Keqiang, who instructed officials to be more proactive in investigating the extent of these silent carriers.

Classified Chinese government data previously seen by the South China Morning Post suggested that the proportion of silent carriers could be as high as one-third of those who test positive.

The data suggested that by the end of February more than 43,000 people in mainland China had tested positive for the coronavirus but had no immediate symptoms. They were not included in the official tally of confirmed cases.

Chang Jile, director of the commission’s Disease Prevention and Control Bureau, said on Tuesday that the government would step up screening and investigation of asymptomatic cases.

“With effect from April 1, we will include reports of asymptomatic cases, any status change and how they are being handled, as part of our daily outbreak updates to address public concern,” Chang said. “We will strengthen our work in monitoring, surveillance, quarantine and the treatment of asymptomatic carriers, and do sampling in key areas to investigate and analyse these carriers.”

Both symptom-free carriers and their close contacts would be placed under 14-day quarantine, he added.

In a statement on its website, the commission confirmed that asymptomatic patients could be infectious.

Without giving exact figures, the statement said there were instancesin which close contacts of the silent carriers had become ill with Covid-19, in some cases resulting in a cluster of infections.

“There are a small number of asymptomatic carriers whose respiratory tract swabs indicated a viral load that was no different from that of confirmed patients,” the commission said. “But some specialists said the asymptomatic carriers may be less infectious because they don’t cough or sneeze.”

Officials and medical experts have said that droplets are a key transmission route for the coronavirus that has infected more than half a million and killed almost 40,000 people around the world.

According to commission guidelines, asymptomatic carriers are people without identifiable clinical symptoms such as fever or a cough but who test positive for the new coronavirus.

Some develop symptoms later while others remain symptom-free after 14 days of observation.

Chinese hospitals and clinics have had to report asymptomatic cases to local centres for disease prevention and control within two hours of detection. Local CDCs then must investigate close contacts and report to the central surveillance system for communicable diseases within 24 hours.

But until now the government has not published numbers for these carriers.
Separate research by Chinese doctors has found that roughly 60 per cent of people who contracted the disease in the central city of Wuhan were asymptomatic or very mild cases that were not reported to the authorities.

The doctors, whose paper was published on the medRxiv preprint platform early this month, based their estimates on about 26,000 laboratory-confirmed cases recorded in the city, the first epicentre of the outbreak, between December and February.
The researchers used lab tests as the basis of their assessment rather than Chinese government data because the authorities used symptomatic manifestations and abnormal lung scans to classify patients.

Ben Cowling, professor and head of epidemiology and biostatistics at the University of Hong Kong, said there was still ambiguity about the definition of asymptomatic cases, including what happened if a person later developed symptoms.
Cowling also said it was important to monitor and test close contacts regardless of whether they had symptoms.

“Monitoring of the close contacts can give us a very good idea of the spectrum of clinical severity of infections,” he said.

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We should carpet bomb China with Lysol!

Why would anybody ever believe one word coming out of China?

Yeah, it's in humanity's best interest to simply ingore any hard numbers coming out of China.

The total cases will probably "jump" by 10 or 20 ..............

(04-01-2020 12:07 PM)TripleA Wrote:  Why would anybody ever believe one word coming out of China?

Quote:The U.S. intelligence community has concluded that China put forward fake coronavirus death and case numbers, according to Bloomberg News.

The intelligence community reportedly sent a classified report to the White House last week detailing how the Chinese government under-reported disease statistics. President Donald Trump and his coronavirus task force have long been skeptical of China’s public numbers, but no official declaration had been made.

Coronavirus task force member Dr. Deborah Birx publicly slighted China for inaccurate reports at a White House press conference Tuesday. She said the slow global response to the virus was thanks largely to China’s downplaying of the threat, which led doctors to take it less seriously.

“The medical community interpreted the Chinese data as: This was serious, but smaller,” she said. “Because I think probably we were missing a significant amount of the data, now that we see happened to Italy and see what happened to Spain.”

China has officially reported 82,000 cases and 3,300 deaths, lower than some nations whose outbreaks started later, such as the U.S. Wuhan, where the virus first broke out, reported 2,535 deaths, but over the course of two days during the crisis, just one of the city’s eight mortuaries received shipments of 5,000 urns to carry ashes of the deceased, according to Shanghaiist.

The mortuary plans to release urns at a rate of 500 per day until April 4. If the city’s seven other mortuaries are adopting the same policy, that would total 40,000 urns, starting with the first confirmed delivery on March 26.

News of the intelligence report comes as much of the medical aid China shipped across the world has turned out to be faulty. The Netherlands received 1.3 million masks from China, and 600,000 were defective, according to Dutch media. Spain and the Czech Republic also ordered hundreds of thousands of test kits, and 80% of them were reportedly defective.

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