Medical staff says goodbye to a baby who recovered from the novel coronavirus pneumonia at the Tangshan campus of the Second Hospital of Nanjing, in Nanjing, east China's Jiangsu Province, Feb. 20, 2020. (Xinhua/Ji Chunpeng)
The overall number of new infections of COVID-19 outside Hubei Province has dropped to nine Monday.
BEIJING, Feb. 25 (Xinhua) -- A total of 23 provincial-level regions and the Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps reported no increase of newly confirmed cases of novel coronavirus (COVID-19) infection on Monday, Mi Feng, a spokesperson for the National Health Commission, said Tuesday.
Seven provinces reported no more than two new confirmed cases Monday, Mi said at a press conference in Beijing.
The overall number of new infections of COVID-19 outside Hubei Province, the epicenter of the outbreak, has dropped to nine Monday, Mi said.
Medical staff give advice to cured patient Ms. Liu who recovered from novel coronavirus pneumonia (NCP) at the First Affiliated Hospital of Nanchang University in Nanchang, east China's Jiangxi Province, Feb. 20, 2020. (Xinhua/Wan Xiang)
The number of new cases reported outside Hubei on Feb. 3 was 890, according to the commission's daily report.
The commission said it received reports of 508 new confirmed cases on Monday from 31 provincial-level regions and the Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps, including 499 in Hubei. ■
