However, the state health and family welfare department said nobody in the state has tested positive for coronavirus so far. In Hubei province, in central China, officials said 242 people died on Wednesday, the biggest daily rise since the flu-like virus emerged in the provincial capital Wuhan in December. As a result, another 14,840 new cases were reported in the province on Thursday, from 2,015 new cases nationwide a day earlier. But excluding cases confirmed using the new method, the number of new cases rose by only 1,508. About 60,000 people have been infected in total, the vast majority of them in China.

Source: Mint February 13, 2020 18:45 UTC