A continued decline in the number of new cases of coronavirus infections in China is encouraging, the World Health Organization said Thursday, but it is too early to know if this trend will continue.
"We are encouraged by this trend but this is no time for complacency," the WHO's director general, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, told a briefing in Geneva.
He also noted that the number of coronavirus cases in the rest of world was very low compared to inside China, but added: "That may not stay the same for very long."
In China, officials have been pointing to evidence that new cases were declining as proof they are succeeding in keeping the virus largely contained to Hubei province and its capital Wuhan, where the virus initially emerged. But revisions to their methodology have raised doubts about the data. Under the latest methodology, which excludes chest X-rays, China reported fewer than 400 new cases over the past day, less than a quarter of the number it had been finding in recent days under the previous method.
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