China's Hubei reports no increase in COVID-19 cases for 29 consecutive days
Wuhan/Xinhua: No new confirmed cases of the novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) were reported in central China's Hubei Province, the provincial health commission said on Sunday.
This marks that Hubei, the once hardest hit Chinese province, has had no new confirmed COVID-19 cases for 29 consecutive days since April 4.
Hubei was cleared of confirmed COVID-19 cases on April 26.
The province reported 651 asymptomatic cases under medical observation after nine such cases were added and five released from quarantine Saturday.
A total of 282,632 close contacts of COVID-19 patients in the province had been tracked by Saturday, 1,383 of whom were still under medical observation.
Hubei has so far reported 68,128 confirmed COVID-19 cases in total, including 50,333 in Wuhan, the provincial capital.
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