For the third time in eight days — and the second time in 24 hours — Chinese public health officials made changes on Feb. 21 to their criteria for counting coronavirus cases, once again sowing confusion over the widely fluctuating figures. In a further sign of potential inconsistencies, an official in China’s Hubei Health Commission suggested that agencies were not being transparent and accurate in their reported case numbers.
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A doctor speaks with a patient during an online consultation session at a hospital in Shenyang in China's northeastern Liaoning province on Feb. 4, 2020, amid an outbreak of a deadly SARS-like virus which began in the city of Wuhan.
