A sharp drop in new China cases, partly due to a change in data methodology, fails to quell alarm
A mask-wearing man crosses a nearly empty street in a commercial area in Beijing, China on February 18 2020. Picture: GETTY IMAGES/KEVIN FRAYER
“People are trying to get far away from the economic fallout that we might see from the coronavirus. You want your capital as far away from China as possible,” said Chris Weston, Melbourne-based head of research at broker Pepperstone. Malls and cinemas in the city were empty and its usually bustling downtown streets were quiet in scenes one resident likened to a “disaster movie”.
A second group of about 600 Japanese and foreign passengers from the ship was set to disembark on Thursday, after the first batch were released from quarantine a day earlier. The ship was carrying about 3,700 people when quarantined on February 3. The change in the method and in the data, China’s second in just over a week, has raised questions about the extent to which daily tallies accurately reflect the state of the outbreak.
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