Chinese officials confirm new deaths and medical-worker infections from coronavirus

This translation has been automatically generated and has not been verified for accuracy.The late-night post to social media from the Wuhan Municipal Health Commission in the midst of a viral outbreak looked like a rare sign of transparency in a country where authorities routinely cover up damaging information in the name of preserving social order.

But the genetically-related Wuhan virus, also known as 2019-nCoV, is spreading in a very different China — and the appearance of more official transparency response suggests that even inside the country’s heavily-constrained Internet environment, the ubiquity of social media has forced change upon a leadership that is grappling with its imperfect ability to shape the information people consume.

There remain signs that Chinese authorities are once again not disclosing full information. Scholars at Imperial College London used epidemiological computer modelling to estimate that the number of people infected is many times what is now the official report.

But, he said, the Chinese public now possesses powers it could never before muster — particularly online. “They know what a tinder box they’re presiding over,” said Scott Savitt, an author and former China correspondent who remains a keen observer of the country. Although much smaller in scale, it reminded him of the more open environment for political discussion ahead of the 1989 Tiananmen crackdown, amid “fear that an overly-harsh response might cause more social instability,” Mr. Savitt said.

Scary as hell! WHO and China should work to find a cure quickly before the deaths become exponential.

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