{"id":14375,"date":"2020-02-14T04:22:53","date_gmt":"2020-02-13T19:22:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/feb\/13\/huge-rise-coronavirus-cases-raises-doubts-scale-epidemic-china"},"modified":"2020-02-14T04:22:53","modified_gmt":"2020-02-13T19:22:53","slug":"huge-rise-in-coronavirus-cases-casts-doubt-over-scale-of-epidemic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=14375","title":{"rendered":"Huge rise in coronavirus cases casts doubt over scale of epidemic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>China reports 13,332 additional cases due to a change in how authorities are counting them<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/live\/2020\/feb\/13\/coronavirus-latest-updates-deaths-in-china-pass-1300-with-jump-in-cases-live-news\">Coronavirus \u2013 live updates<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The true scale of the epidemic caused by the new coronavirus in Hubei province has been thrown into doubt after the Chinese authorities reported more than 13,300 extra cases going back over an unknown number of days or weeks.<\/p>\n<p>The World Health Organization (WHO) said the huge jump in cases in Hubei, bringing the total to more than 60,000 worldwide, was due to a change in the way Chinese authorities was counting them.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/feb\/13\/huge-rise-coronavirus-cases-raises-doubts-scale-epidemic-china\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>China reports 13,332 additional cases due to a change in how authorities are counting themCoronavirus \u2013 live updatesThe true scale of the epidemic caused by the new coronavirus in Hubei province has been thrown into doubt after the Chinese authorities &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":983,"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":[41,50,1069,914,1045,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14375","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-coronavirus-outbreak","category-infectious-diseases","category-world-health-organization","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\/14375","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\/983"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14375"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14375\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14376,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14375\/revisions\/14376"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14375"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14375"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14375"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}