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WHO Director-General's opening remarks at the media briefing on COVID-19 on 21 February 2020

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Good afternoon everyone. Let me begin, as always, with the latest numbers.As of 6am Geneva time this morning, China has reported a total of 75,567 cases of COVID-19 to WHO, including 2,239 deaths.In the past 24 hours, China has reported 892 new confirmed cases, and 118 deaths.The significant decline in new confirmed cases is partly due to another change in the way China reports numbers.As you know, last week China started reporting clinically-diagnosed cases, in addition to laboratory-confirmed cases.They have now switched back to reporting only suspected and lab-confirmed cases.This may indicate that the health system in Wuhan have regained the ability to test all suspected cases.As a result, some cases that had been clinically-confirmed

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