Still, the Chinese authorities have acknowledged the difficulty in knowing the outbreak’s precise scale. On Thursday, officials added more than 14,800 new cases to the tally of those infected, the largest one-day increase recorded so far. They attributed the jump to a change in the way they diagnosed confirmed cases.
The United States will also widen its search for possible infections: American health officials in five cities will begin testing some people with flulike symptoms for the coronavirus, according to Dr. Messonnier of the C.D.C.
The constant changes have left people caught in the middle of the outbreak confused and frustrated.
Rachel Torres, 24, a newlywed on the cruise ship quarantined in Japan, said that she and her husband, Tyler, would take the evacuation flight, though they were frustrated that it had not been offered earlier.
Gay Courter, 75, an American novelist from Crystal River, Fla., near Tampa, said she and her husband, Philip, would also leave the ship despite the unexpected quarantine period.
“This is what we’ve been asking for, because we never felt quarantine on this ship was safe,” she said.
Elian Peltier, Edward Wong and Elaine Yu contributed reporting. Claire Fu contributed research.
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