{"id":14371,"date":"2020-02-14T12:56:51","date_gmt":"2020-02-14T03:56:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/live\/2020\/feb\/14\/coronavirus-latest-updates-wuhan-hubei-china-deaths-cruise-ship-sydney-cases-covid19-live-news"},"modified":"2020-02-14T19:29:39","modified_gmt":"2020-02-14T10:29:39","slug":"coronavirus-latest-updates-death-rate-in-chinas-hubei-slows-after-spike-live-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=14371","title":{"rendered":"Coronavirus latest updates: China cuts death toll after &#8216;double-counting&#8217; &ndash; live news"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Statistical error led to more than 100 deaths being counted twice, national health commission says<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/science\/2020\/jan\/23\/tell-us-have-you-been-affected-by-the-coronavirus\">Share your experiences<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"block-time published-time\"> <time datetime=\"2020-02-14T10:29:39.158Z\">10.29am <span class=\"timezone\">GMT<\/span><\/time> <\/p>\n<p>One of the people diagnosed with coronavirus in the UK attended a central London conference with more than 200 delegates, PA reports.<\/p>\n<p>The person, who has not been named, attended the UK Bus Summit at the QEII Centre in Westminster on 6 February 6.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOne of our main priorities has been to identify any people who we think have been in close contact with confirmed cases of Covid-19 to provide public health advice, as they may be at slightly increased risk of catching the virus.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhile the degree of contact conference delegates may have had with the case is unlikely to have been significant, we have taken a precautionary approach and informed them of the situation.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"block-time published-time\"> <time datetime=\"2020-02-14T10:11:39.478Z\">10.11am <span class=\"timezone\">GMT<\/span><\/time> <\/p>\n<p>We\u2019ve updated our coronavirus (or should that now be covid-19?) Q&amp;A: <\/p>\n<p> <span>Related: <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/feb\/14\/what-is-coronavirus-symptoms-covid-19-wuhan-china\">What is coronavirus and what should I do if I have symptoms?<\/a> <\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/live\/2020\/feb\/14\/coronavirus-latest-updates-wuhan-hubei-china-deaths-cruise-ship-sydney-cases-covid19-live-news\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Statistical error led to more than 100 deaths being counted twice, national health commission saysShare your experiences 10.29am GMT One of the people diagnosed with coronavirus in the UK attended a central London conference with more than 200 delegate&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":258,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,43,50,1069,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14371","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-australia-news","category-china","category-coronavirus-outbreak","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14371","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/258"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14371"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14371\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14395,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14371\/revisions\/14395"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14371"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14371"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14371"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}