Hubei, epicentre of China's COVID-19 outbreak, reports sharp drop in new cases
02 March, 2020
China's central Hubei province, the epicentre of the country's coronavirus outbreak, reported significantly less than 200 cases of new infections for the very first time since January.
Hubei had 196 new confirmed cases on Sunday, the National Health Commission said on Monday (Mar 2), sharply down from 570 cases a day earlier and the cheapest since Jan 24.
The decline was driven by a decline in new cases in the provincial capital of Wuhan, which reported 193 new infections, the lowest since Jan 26.
Overall, mainland China had 202 new confirmed cases, the cheapest since Jan 22.
Excluding the new infections in Hubei, there have been only six new cases in mainland China, the lowest since last month.
That brings the full total number of confirmed cases in mainland China up to now to 80,026.
The death toll from the outbreak in mainland China reached 2,912 by the end of Sunday, up by 42 from the previous day.
Hubei accounted for each of the 42 new deaths, while 32 people died in Wuhan.
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