Comments by a Shanghai health commission official on the matter

This is getting a bit complicated and even more blurry now. The fact that one province - albeit the epicenter of the outbreak - is adopting a different way of reporting cases than the others surely will damage the quality of the statistics, no?

In case you missed the earlier news, the Hubei province reported a jump of 14,840 new cases - the bulk of it said to be a reclassification in the case reporting.