China reports fewer cases of Covid19
14 March, 2020
China reported just eight cases of the coronavirus on Friday, with no new domestic infections beyond your epicentre of Hubei province.
The National Health Commission said there have been five more persons infected in Hubei's capital Wuhan, where the virus first emerged in December.
The numbers are the lowest daily tally for Wuhan since China started reporting figures in January.
Three more imported cases from overseas were reported -- two in Shanghai and one in Beijing -- fuelling fears about China's strict containment measures being undone by persons coming in from hotspots in other countries.
There have been 88 imported cases.
Another seven persons died, bringing the national toll from the disease in mainland China to 3,176. A lot more than 80,000 people have been infected.
With new infections falling dramatically in recent days, authorities this week started to loosen some restrictions on Hubei's 56 million people, who have been under quarantine since late January.
The federal government in Qianjiang, a city of 1 million, said Thursday it could arrange special transport to take healthy staff with their jobs both outside and inside the province.
The neighborhood government in Shishou, a little city of just over half a million, was also allowing personnel to leave.
Meanwhile, healthy people moving into low-risk areas of the province is now able to travel within Hubei.
While Wuhan isn't contained in the loosening of restrictions, a number of the city's companies were told this week they could resume work.
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