[empath75]

There is some speculation that that is because they are at their limit for how many tests they can do per day.

[terenceng2010]

The test may also return a false negative. There is a case that a patient is identified after 4 tests.

https://www.worldofbuzz.com/wuhan-patient-tests-negative-4-t...

[scoot]

It would be flat in that case.

[mrb]

GP means if their processing limit is 3k tests per day, then at most they can report 3k new confirmed cases per day. And that's pretty much what we've seen since Jan 31: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_the_2019%E2%80%932...

[scotth]

That's assuming supply of testing kits is constant.

[scoot]

Which is a different constraint to the one in the message I was replying to.

[throwaway1997]

Not just that, the hospitals are completely jammed in certain areas which means if you get the illness it's often safer to just stay at home - but then it goes unreported.