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Virus death toll surges as China changes way it counts cases

A technician helps a colleague remove a protective suit after leaving a laboratory in Shenyang in China's northeastern Liaoning province. [AFP]

The number of deaths and new cases from China's coronavirus outbreak spiked dramatically on Thursday after authorities changed the way they count infections in a move that will likely fuel speculation that the severity of the outbreak has been under-reported.

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