In fresh cases, the number of imported COVID-19 cases sharply rose to 67 in a day after the deadly virus was brought under control in its epicentre Wuhan, health officials said today.
China’s National Health Commission said on Thursday, while no new domestically transmitted cases of coronavirus were reported on the Chinese mainland on Wednesday, 67 new confirmed cases were recorded, up from 47 a day earlier, all of which were imported.
Also, although epicentres Hubei province and its capital Wuhan have been reporting zero cases for a while, death toll there continued to rise.
On Wednesday, six deaths were reported from Hubei province taking the death toll in China to 3,287 people and total number of cases to 81,285.
In Hubei and Wuhan alone as of Wednesday 3,169 people died since January.
The virus was first reported in Wuhan in December last year. Hubei health commission said on Thursday that 914 people were still in severe condition and another 287 in critical condition in hospitals.
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