Active cases of COVID-19 drop for the first time ... but what's happening outside China is a concern
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For the first time since a novel coronavirus was noted as the source of new respiratory infections and fever back in December, the number of active cases of what is now called COVID-19 fell on Thursday. The source of that drop is the region that has dominatActive cases of COVID-19 drop for the first time ... but what's happening outside China is a concern
For the first time since a novel coronavirus was noted as the source of new respiratory infections and fever back in December, the number of active cases of what is now called COVID-19 fell on Thursday. The source of that drop is the region that has dominated statistics about the epidemic: Hubei province in China. After a slow decline over a series of days, newly reported cases dropped dramatically in the latest report from the Hubei regional government, enough so that all of China notched just over 400 new cases while reporting over 2,000 new people as recovered. That news is a little less sparkly than it might seem, as part of the reason for the low numbers in the latest report are some bookkeeping changes that removed a few hundred previously reported cases that had been double-counted. But if bookkeeping changes can generate a 14,000 surge in one day, it seems only fair that they should also result in a 300-case drop on another. What’s more worrisome on Thursday is what’s happening outside China. That news is less good. Read more