Virus death toll surges as China changes way it counts cases
A laboratory technician collecting a sample from a person to be tested for the new coronavirus during an epidemiological investigation in Linyi in China's eastern Shandong province. PHOTO | CHINA OUT |AFP
What you need to know:
The hard-hit central province of Hubei reported 242 deaths in just one day and 14,840 new patients -- by far its biggest one-day tally since the crisis erupted last month.
The biggest cluster of cases outside China is on a cruise ship quarantined off Japan's coast.
