17th March, 2020
Credit: Sky News
China has reported a decrease in number of infected persons by local transmission since the outbreak of coronavirus (COVID-19).
According to the latest figures from the National Health Commission, China announced 21 new cases of coronavirus on Tuesday along with 13 new deaths caused by the illness COVID-19.
All but one of the new confirmed cases are imported, brought into the country by citizens returning from abroad.
Only one new case was recorded in Hubei province, where the outbreak first began in December, 2019 – a new daily low for the country, where imported cases surpassed domestic ones for the first time on Sunday.
COVID-19 has killed 3,226 people in China and infected a total of 80,881 people, of whom 68,679 have recovered.