For context, the sudden jump is due to a change in the reporting criteria [1]:<p>> BEIJING: China's Hubei province on Thursday (Feb 13) reported a sharp rise in confirmed coronavirus cases and a surge in the death toll after the adoption of new methodology for diagnosis, health officials said.<p>> The death toll leapt by a record 242, more than double the prior provincial daily record of 103 set on Monday, while the number of new cases soared by 14,840 - also a daily record - to a total of 48,206 cases.<p>> Health officials in the province, the epicentre of the epidemic, said they had started including people diagnosed using the new methods from Thursday. Excluding cases confirmed using the new methods, the number of new cases rose by only 1,508, the official data showed.<p>[1] <a href="https://www.channelnewsasia.com/news/asia/wuhan-virus-hubei-new-cases-covid-19-coronavirus-new-method-12429726" rel="nofollow">https://www.channelnewsasia.com/news/asia/wuhan-virus-hubei-...</a>