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From 04:00 to 24:00 on February 19, 2020 , 349 new cases of new coronary pneumonia were confirmed in the province , including: 615 in Wuhan, 5 in Xiantao, 3 in Shiyan, 3 in Suizhou, 2 in Xiangyang, and Huanggang City reduction of 5 cases, Ezhou reduction of 5 cases, Enshi Prefecture reduction of 5 cases, Tianmen City reduction of 13 cases, Xiaogan City reduction of 15 cases, Huangshi City reduction of 16 cases, Yichang City reduction of 16 cases, Jingzhou City reduction of 31 cases, Xianning City reduction 66 cases, 107 cases of nuclear reduction in Jingmen City. There...

Washington (AFP) – A senior US health official said Sunday that more than 40 Americans on a quarantined cruise ship in Japan have been infected with the deadly coronavirus. “Forty of them have gotten infected,” Anthony Fauci, a senior official at the National Insitutes for Health said on CBS’ Face the Nation show. (snip)

Health authorities in Hubei province said Thursday that "clinically diagnosed" cases accounted for much of the increase in the "confirmed case" count, resulting in a surge in new confirmed cases for the prior day. (see 7:55 am update) The change was made so that more patients could receive the same treatment as a confirmed case would, according to a CNBC translation of the official announcement's Chinese text.