SHANGHAI: All Coronavirus patients were discharged from Wuhan city hospitals, where the global coronavirus pandemic began, now has no remaining cases in its hospitals, a health official told reporters on Sunday.
The Chinese city of Wuhan, where the global coronavirus pandemic began, now has no remaining cases in its hospitals, a health official told reporters on Sunday (April 26).
“The latest news is that by April 26, the number of new coronavirus patients in Wuhan was at zero, thanks to the joint efforts of Wuhan and medical staff from around the country,” National Health Commission spokesman Mi Feng said at a briefing.
The city had reported 46,452 cases, 56 per cent of the national total. It saw 3,869 fatalities, or 84 per cent of China’s total.
Earlier on Sunday, the Health Ministry also announced that there were no new confirmed cases or new deaths of the coronavirus disease were reported in central China’s Hubei Province Saturday.
By the end of Saturday, the province had 572 asymptomatic cases under medical observation, after 19 new such cases were reported on Saturday.
Twelve patients remained in hospital in the province on Sunday morning, Chinese – Xinhua News agency reported.
Meanwhile, Smog-prone Hubei province has witnessed certain downward trend in pollution by 15 per cent from October to March. The China’s smog-prone northern province met its air quality targets by a big margin over the winter after concerted efforts to tackle emissions, a local official said on Sunday.
Average PM2.5 concentrations over the October-March period dropped 15 per cet from a year earlier to 61 micrograms per cubic metre, while sulphur dioxide also fell by a third, said He Litao, vice-head of the provincial environmental bureau.
Most experts have attributed the significant decline in air pollution throughout China in the first quarter to the coronavirus outbreak and tough containment measures, which saw cities and entire provinces, locked down and sharply reduced traffic and industrial activity throughout the country.
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