New numbers from China’s National Health Commission revised down an earlier coronavirus death toll from Hubei province saying duplications had been found in “data collection and recording” according to a CNN report.
According to the China’s National Health Commission, the current number of infections in mainland China is 63,851, up 5,090 from the day before, while the death toll has risen to 1,380.
In total, that brings the global total to at least 1,383 deaths and 64,435 confirmed infections.
Previous numbers released out of Hubei province this morning had suggested that the number of infected had climbed above 65,000 but Beijing now says that is incorrect.
CNN further reports that hundreds of health professionals in the frontlines fighting the virus have been infected.
The Chinese health authorities have so far not disclosed the number of infections of health care workers. But accounts shared with CNN and seen on social media suggest that the extent of the infection could be in the high hundreds.
The World Health Organization has so far declared coronavirus which was first discovered in Wuhan — a city in China’s Hubei province — late last year, a global health emergency.
