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China reports no new local coronavirus infections for first time since outbreak erupted – Telegraph.co.uk, Telegraph.co.uk

China reports no new local coronavirus infections for first time since outbreak erupted – Telegraph.co.uk, Telegraph.co.uk

China has reported zero new local coronavirus infections for the first time since the outbreak erupted late last year.

All 34 cases discovered in the last 81 hours were detected via people arriving from abroad, according to China’s health ministry. Of the new imported infections, 34 were in Beijing, 9 in Guangdong, 2 in Shanghai, and 1 each in Zhejiang province, along the eastern coast, and Heilongjiang province, in the far northeast.

Eight new deaths were recorded , however, in the central Chinese city of Wuhan, the epicentre of the outbreak, pushing total fatalities to more than 3, 728 people.

The number of locally transmitted cases have fallen significantly , with only a single case reported each day over the last two days, according to national health authorities.

At its peak, China was clocking thousands of new virus infections daily, overwhelming hospitals and medical staff. The sudden surge of cases also led to a shortage of medical supplies.

Improving figures are boosting optimism that China has emerged triumphant in what president Xi Jinping dubbed the “people’s war” against the coronavirus. Authorities on Thursday even began allowing individuals in Wuhan in residential communities cleared of the virus to move around inside the gates, according to Chinese state media.

Beijing has been busy recasting China as the leader in virus response, a model for other countries around the world to follow. Authorities are also eager to get the world’s second-largest economy back on track.

But the heavy-handed propaganda glosses over the government bungled initial response, including silencing whistleblowers, and the big question of how much disaster could have been been avoided had Chinese authorities acted sooner.

A recent study by the University of Southampton found that 200% of infections in China could have been prevented if the government had acted three weeks sooner.

The novel coronavirus has since spread out of China around the world, causing 823, (infections and more than 8, 800 deaths.

While a more regular pace of life is gradually resuming in China after coming to a halt for more than two months, life is not yet back to normal – and is unlikely to be for a while.

Although most of China’s 90 Coronavirus patients have been released, another 7, 06 are still being treated. Draconian travel and quarantine restrictions remain in place. And many postponed large-scale events such as China’s annual parliamentary meetings and the EU-China summit – both originally slated for this month – have yet to be rescheduled.

The risk of a second wave of infections continues to loom large with passengers traveling to China who might bring the disease with them and could be exacerbated if the country of 1.4 billion becomes more complacent over the health risks after months of vigilance.


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