China has not recorded any new deaths from the Covid-19 in the past 24 hours, authorities said on Tuesday three months after the country's first death.
The Asian giant, where the Covid-19 appeared in late 2019, had reported a first death on January 11. Since then, 3,331 people have died from the disease in the country.
After exceeding one hundred in February, the daily number of new deaths has steadily reduced since then to a single death announced Monday by the Ministry of Health, then zero Tuesday.
A second wave of imported cases
New cases of contamination have also been steadily decreasing since early March, but the country is facing a second wave of infections imported from abroad, with nearly a thousand cumulative cases, according to the ministry.
The agency reported on Tuesday 32 new cases of contamination, all of imported origin. Authorities also counted 30 new asymptomatic patients, bringing the total to 1,033.
The vast majority of cases and deaths have been recorded in Wuhan, the city in the center of the country where the virus first appeared last year before spreading worldwide, killing more than 70,000 people.
Quarantined on January 23, the city must lift its containment measures on Wednesday, healthy people are in principle allowed to leave the metropolis of 11 million inhabitants.
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