China’s Hubei province, the epicenter of the COVID-19 outbreak, reported 35 new confirmed cases and 33 new deaths on Sunday, marking a significant decrease in both new cases and fatalities compared to the previous day..
Wuhan, the provincial capital and the city where the virus was first detected in December, reported 21 new confirmed cases on Sunday, a drop from 40 reported a day earlier. It also reported 11 new deaths, the lowest daily death toll in more than a month..
The Hubei Health Commission said in a statement that 30 of the new cases were reported in people who had close contact with previously confirmed patients, while the remaining five were linked to other cases..
Meanwhile, the Wuhan Traditional Chinese Medicine Hospital, one of the designated hospitals for treating COVID-19 patients in the city, reported no new cases in the past 24 hours. The hospital has treated more than 1,000 patients since the outbreak began, and has discharged more than half of them..
The hospital’s director, Liu Qingquan, said that the decline in new cases is a sign that the outbreak is under control in Wuhan..
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