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Situation in China’s virus-hit Hubei province ‘severe and complicated’, says vice governor
Security guards stand in front of the closed Huanan wholesale seafood market, where health authorities say a man who died from a respiratory illness had purchased goods from, in the city of Wuhan, Hubei province, on January 12, 2020. u00e2u20acu201d AFP picnn
Sunday, 02 Feb 2020 9:53 PM MYT

SHANGHAI, Feb 2 — The situation in Hubei province, the centre of China’s virus outbreak, remains "severe and complicated” and medical resources at county level are relatively weak, vice governor Xiao Juhua told a news conference today.

Wang Wei, director of Hubei’s science and technology department, told the briefing that the time needed to confirm cases with test kits had halved to no more than two hours, and that the kits’ accuracy had improved. — Reuters

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