Life after lockdown: has China really beaten coronavirus?

[Ghost Dog]

... Some of the concerns about China’s reporting stem from how Beijing classifies patients. While the World Health Organization and South Korea consider anyone who has tested positive for the virus as a confirmed case, China does not include asymptomatic infections in its final tally.

Late on Monday night, Wuhan’s health commission published a Q&A explaining how asymptomatic cases are dealt with. On why such cases are not included as confirmed cases, the commission said that patients were quarantined for 14 days and if they began to show symptoms they would be designated as confirmed and that data would be published.

“A small number of asymptomatic infections may progress to becoming confirmed cases, but the vast majority [of patients] will heal by themselves,” it said.

Critics also question why recovered patients who retest as positive are not counted. Data from quarantine centres in Wuhan showed that the possibility of recovered patients testing positive again was between 5% and 10%, according to the state-run Global Times. Officials in Hubei have said those patients would not be recorded as new confirmed cases because they had been counted previously...

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/mar/23/life-after-lockdown-has-china-really-beaten-coronavirus

The article contains a few quotes, such as:

“I am really worried that there are still many asymptomatic infected people inside Wuhan. As soon as everyone goes back to work, everyone will be infected,” said Wang, 26, who lives in the city. Another resident added: “I don’t believe [the numbers]. This epidemic will not disappear so easily.”

“Any rational person would doubt these figures,” one internet user wrote in response to an essay posted by a volunteer in Wuhan questioning the statistics.

[Squinch]

1. Whatever they're doing, its more effective and more honest than what we're doing

[True Blue American]

2. China

Has offered to help us!

[C_U_L8R]

3. With Singapore going back into a second quarantine

We need to be careful we don't create a multiple (potentially worse) waves of the virus.

[Chainfire]

4. We may never know what the real situation in China is

Despots defend themselves with a Bodyguard of Lies....All despots.

[Iterate]

5. Doesn't pass the smell test.

Have the other provinces been through the fire yet? If not, why release proven cases?

And while the countries who have reacted best are not easing up, but two who have been worst want to quit and cash in.

Besides, pandemics come in waves. And the sticks haven't been hit yet.

[dalton99a]

6. Wuhan is still under lockdown.

[uponit7771]

7. If they've bottomed out their transmission rate then yes, it doesn't have to be zero