China President Xi Jinping pays first visit to COVID-19 epicentre Wuhan: State media
10 March, 2020
Chinese President Xi Jinping found its way to Wuhan in Tuesday (Mar 10) for his first visit to the epicentre of the country's coronavirus epidemic since the crisis erupted in January.
Xi's unannounced visit shows up as unprecedented quarantine methods that contain sealed off Wuhan and the others of central Hubei province since late January appear to have paid off, with new attacks dropping drastically in recent weeks.
The Communist Party head arrived by plane in Hubei's capital for an "inspection of the epidemic prevention and control work" in the region, in line with the official Xinhua news agency.
He will also talk with frontline medical workers, army officials, community workers, law enforcement, patients and occupants, Xinhua said.
The virus is thought to have emerged in December at a market that sold wild animals in Wuhan before ballooning right into a national and then a global epidemic.
A lot more than 4,000 persons have died and over 110,000 have already been infected all over the world, with almost all in China, though daily infections are actually growing at a considerably faster pace abroad.
China reported only 19 new cases on Tuesday, the cheapest figure since it began to compile the data on January 21.
Seventeen conditions were in Wuhan while the additional two were imported from abroad.
The country had been tallying thousands of cases weekly in January and most of February.
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