https://www.wsj.com/articles/china-o...er-11581568911
This might have something to do with the “trend change” in the numbers. New management, keen to highlight bad practices of previous management so it doesnt come back on them:
- test kits were giving false negatives, proved unreliable to give numbers of infected
- added CT scans to add “clinical diagnoses” into the count
- CT scans must be for severe cases though where the infection is rampant