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CHINA: Coronavirus study points to vast number of cases under the radar in China

(SCMP)

- China's official tally of coronavirus cases could have quadrupled in

mid-February if one broader system for classifying confirmed patients had been

used from the outset of the pandemic, according to researchers at the University

of Hong Kong. In a study published in the medical journal The Lancet on Tuesday,

the researchers said China might have had 232,000 confirmed cases - rather than

the official total of about 55,000 - by February 20 if a revised definition

adopted earlier in the month had been applied throughout. "We estimated that

there were at least 232,000 infections in the first epidemic wave of Covid-19 in

mainland China," they said, referring to the disease caused by the coronavirus.

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