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The result was achieved with the “efforts of medical workers in Wuhan” and those who were dispatched to assist the city in fighting the virus across the country, said Mi Feng, spokesman for the National Health Commission (CNH). from China. .
The last patient in Wuhan was cured on Friday, reducing the number of coronavirus patients in the city to zero, Mi said, the state news agency Xinhua reported.
The Hubei Province Health Commission, whose capital is Wuhan, said no new confirmed cases or new deaths due to Covid-19 were reported in Satuday.
He said 11 coronavirus patients were discharged from the hospital after recovery in Wuhan.
Hubei has so far reported 68,128 confirmed cases of Covid-19, including 50,333 in Wuhan.
Hubei and Wuhan have been at the center of the coronavirus outbreak since early January this year, and were the most affected.
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China officially said that the coronavirus was noticed in late December in Wuhan, but announced harsh measures such as the closure of a province of 56 million people since January 23, prompting criticism from the US. USA And other countries of which it acted late, which led to its spread worldwide.
There was controversy over whether the virus, with the ability to spread from person to person, arose from the Huanan Seafood Market in Wuhan or escaped from the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV) as alleged by the US. USA
China has said that the origin of the coronavirus is a scientific matter and that the scientific and medical community should be left to reach a conclusion.
China also revised the death toll in Wuhan by 50 percent amid criticism that the cases are not reported.
The local municipal authority said that as of April 16, the total number of confirmed cases of coronavirus in Wuhan increased from 325 to 50,333 and the number of deaths increased from 1,290 to 3,869.
The revised figure raised the total death toll from Covid-19 in China to 4,632. The total number of cases as of Thursday was 82,692.
Officials at the Chinese Foreign Ministry said the review was due to some late reports, omissions and inaccurate information in the initial stages.
Authorities said more than five million Wuhan residents traveled before the closing to take advantage of the Chinese New Year holiday beginning on January 24, which was cited as a possible reason for the spread of the virus in China and the world.
China has highlighted strong measures it has taken in Hubei, such as the prolonged closure, in addition to building 14 temporary hospitals and the deployment of 42,000 medical personnel to contain the virus.
The blockade was lifted on April 8 after virus cases decreased.
The city of Wuhan, with 11 million inhabitants, has not yet become completely normal due to the constant increase in asymptomatic cases.
At the end of Saturday, the province had 572 asymptomatic cases under medical observation, after 19 new cases were reported on Saturday, the local health commission reported Sunday.
Asymptomatic cases refer to people who test positive for the coronavirus but do not develop symptoms such as fever, cough, or sore throat. They are infectious and carry the risk of spreading the virus to others.
More than 200,000 people worldwide have died from the new coronavirus, including more than 50,000 in the US. USA It has infected almost three million people worldwide.
