China kept secret thousands of confirmed daily COVID cases in February as tests results took weeks


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December 1, 2020 by An unprepared China downplayed the spread of coronavirus in February, keeping secret thousands of confirmed daily cases just as the pandemic spread rapidly across the world, newly revealed documents show. Coronavirus test results took an average of over 23 days, and a previously undisclosed influenza outbreak wracked the future epicenter of the pandemic in December, according to classified documents from the Hubei Province Center for Disease Control and Prevention that were leaked to CNN . China’s government has maintained that it has been transparent in its public statements about coronavirus, which was first identified in the...