Officials in China’s Hubei province are using a broader definition to diagnose people with Covid-19, the disease caused by the coronavirus. That new definition brings the estimated number of infected people in China to nearly 60,000. Correspondent Rebecca Kanthor, a longtime resident of Shanghai, talks with host Marco Werman about the changes to everyday life in China’s second-biggest city.
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