China says COVID-19 peak is over
People's Daily Online
(Xinhua) 16:14, March 12, 2020
BEIJING, March 12 (Xinhua) -- The peak of the current outbreak of novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in China is over, a government spokesperson said Thursday.
New cases keep declining and the overall epidemic situation remains at a low level, Mi Feng, a spokesperson for the National Health Commission said at a press conference in Beijing.
Mi said the number of new cases in Wuhan, the epicenter in central China's Hubei Province, has dropped to a single digit, with only eight cases reported on Wednesday.
Only seven new cases were reported on the Chinese mainland outside Hubei, but six were imported from overseas.
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