before today , China ’s National Health Commissionreportedthat no new domestically transmitted cases of the novel coronavirus had occurred in the country on Wednesday , March 18 . This marks the first time this frame has been zero in China since the epidemic begin back in December . However , the menace of contagion may not be over for the country , as 34 new display case among people recently repay to China were also report .
out of doors of Wuhan , the epicenter of the eruption , in the Hubei responsibility of China , no new indigenous confirmed cases had been account for13 back-to-back days . The growth in shell numbers in the city of Wuhan had remained in single figures for the last week , until eventually dropping to zero yesterday . This mean that on March 18 , across all of the Taiwanese mainland , the increase in domestic transmissions had been reduced to zero .
These figures are a stark direct contrast to the ones seen a month ago , where several thousand unexampled cases were being confirmed every day . In Huanggang , a neighbor city of Wuhan , which at one decimal point had the secondly - high number of confirmed case , further advances had been made asyesterdayit reportedly discharge its last two COVID-19 patients .
Since the irruption began at theend of December last year , theNational Health Commissionin China says it had receive 80,928 reports of confirmed cases including 3,245 deaths , and 70,420 patient cured and discharged from hospital .
For several cities in China that have beenquarantinedsince January 23 , news program of the decoct cases of domesticated transmitting has result to a partial lift of the batch quarantine , allowing residentsin depleted - hazard areasto go out the Hubei province for employment , according toBloomberg .
As these measures are repeal , experts are warning that the disease could in fact have a 2d wave . Having infectedless than 1 percentof the universe in its first wave , most people in China are still susceptible to the disease .
A more contiguous scourge for a second wave in China come from “ imported cases . ” Having seen 34 new imported display case on Wednesday , the Formosan mainland hasreporteda total of 189 confirmed instance brought from overseas .
“ It ’s going to keep combust . The virus is still out there , ” Michael Osterholm , director of the Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy at the University of Minnesota , toldBloomberg . “ We expect it to leak back in from the rest of the world . ”
