New Covid-19 infections drop as China reverts diagnostic guidelines
The National Health Commission reported a total of 74,576 infections across mainland China and 2,118 deaths including 114 casualties over the past 24 hours.
To address concerns about false negatives, the new guidelines emphasise the need for sound sampling procedures and the use of multiple tests alongside new rapid antibody screening tests that are being developed by Guangzhou Medical University. The evacuees will spend a further 14 days in quarantine in a disused workers’ camp some 30 kilometres from the city, where more than 260 Australians are already being kept after being evacuated from Wuhan, the epicentre of the crisis in central China.
The number of confirmed infections among the 3,700 passengers on the ship stood at 621, including 36 Australians.The first group of passengers from the Diamond Princess also touched down in Hong Kong on Thursday.
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