China reports Wuhan has 'zero' hospitalized coronavirus patients — but the city still hasn't fully reopened
Wuhan hospitals have no more coronavirus patients, Chinese officials reported on Sunday, nearly four months after the city was identified as the origin site of the virus.
Since December, Wuhan has recorded around 46,000 coronavirus cases — more than half of all cases confirmed in China. Some public-health experts have suggested that the actual case totals in China"The latest news is that by April 26, the number of new coronavirus patients in Wuhan was at zero, thanks to the joint efforts of Wuhan and medical staff from around the country," a spokesperson for China's National Health Commission spokesman, Mi Feng, said at a briefing on Sunday.
Official tallies indicate that around 84% of coronavirus deaths in China — nearly 4,000 — occurred in Wuhan. As of Saturday, Chinese officials said the city had only 12 coronavirus cases and no new infections. Wuhan was placed under lockdown on January 23 by halting transportation in and out of the city. On February 14, the city began
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