China reports 2,641 new virus cases, death toll rises to 143
Wang, 32, and his wife Shi, 30, wearing masks are seen at a marriage registry office on Valentine's Day in Shanghai, China, as the country is hit by an outbreak of the novel coronavirus, February 14, 2020.
More than 66,000 people have now been infected in China from an illness that emerged in the Hubei capital Wuhan in December and spread nationwide a month later.Chinese authorities have placed some 56 million people in Hubei under quarantine, virtually sealing off the province from the rest of the country in an unprecedented effort to contain the virus.
The scale of the epidemic swelled this week after authorities in Hubei changed their criteria for counting cases, adding thousands of new patients to their tally. The revision added nearly 15,000 patients to Hubei's tally on Thursday, with the World Health Organization noting that cases going back weeks were retroactively counted.The number of new cases confirmed has been steadily falling outside Hubei, with 221 infections reported on Saturday.
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