China saw a significant decline in new cases. China reported a dramatic decrease in new coronavirus infections on Thursday, as health officials changed the way they counted confirmed cases for the second time in over a week. The country’s health commission said that there were 394 new cases across the country in the previous 24 hours. This was a significantly slower increase compared to the number of new infections reported in the several days preceding it, which has hovered between nearly 1,700 reported Wednesday and more than 2,000 on Feb. 14. The total number of infections rose to 74,576. There were 114 more deaths on Wednesday, bringing the toll to 2,118. It was not immediately clear if the decline in new infections was the result of changes in how the government categorizes new cases. But the modification of the criteria quickly threw into confusion […]