Doubt raised over truth of coronavirus infection figures as hospitals overwhelmed

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There are reports hospitals in Wuhan are overwhelmed with sick patients, raising fears official reports do not reflect the true infection rate.

The epidemic saw more than 8,000 SARS cases across 37 countries, resulting in 774 deaths.In a daily press conference on Tuesday, Foreign Ministry spokesperson Geng Shuang said China had been"acting with openness, transparency and a high sense of responsibility towards global health security".

He said China was sharing information on the epidemic with the World Health Organisation , which is holding an emergency meeting about the outbreak and its potential global consequences in Geneva on Wednesday 7:00pm local time . WHO spokesman Tarik Jasarevic said new cases of the coronavirus would appear as China stepped up monitoring.Cases of the virus have already been reported in the United States, Japan, South Korea and Thailand and Hong Kong, while

one man in Brisbane was briefly placed in isolation after returning from Wuhan with flu-like symptoms, but subsequently releasedHong Kong also reported 118 suspected cases, according to the South China Morning Post, however 88 of those people have since been discharged. Macau, another special administrative region of China, also announced its first confirmed case of the virus on Wednesday.

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