  The coronavirus disease 2019 bursted out about two months ago in Wuhan has
caused the death of more than a thousand people. China is fighting hard against
the epidemics with the helps from all over the world. On the other hand, there
appear to be doubts on the reported case number. In this article, we propose a
test of the reported case number of coronavirus disease 2019 in China with
Newcomb-Benford law. We find a $p$-value of $92.8\%$ in favour that the
cumulative case numbers abide by the Newcomb-Benford law. Even though the
reported case number can be lower than the real number of affected people due
to various reasons, this test does not seem to indicate the detection of
frauds.
