PBS NewsHour

In China, political fallout from novel coronavirus continues

Clip: 02/13/2020 | 6m 2s | Video has closed captioning.

As novel coronavirus continues to plague China, the country’s president, Xi Jinping, fired two high-level Communist Party officials in the region at the outbreak's center. The move comes as both death toll and number of cases are surging, partly as a result of changes in the way infections are defined. John Yang sits down with Jude Blanchette of the Center for Strategic and International Studies.