China reports no new domestic coronavirus cases for the first time

China today said no new domestic cases of the Corona virus were reported for the first time in the country, three months after the deadly virus broke out in Wuhan. China's National Health Commission (NHC), in its daily report said, no new domestically transmitted cases of the Novel Corona virus disease (COVID-19) were reported on the Chinese mainland yesterday. It, however, said 34 new confirmed COVID-19 cases were reported but they were all from those arriving from abroad.

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Wuhan, which bore the brunt of the virus since it broke out in December last year, also reported zero cases yesterday, marking a notable first in



the city's months-long battle with the virus, state-run Xinhua news agency reported.

The NHC said with 34 confirmed cases from the people arriving from abroad, the number of imported cases in China rose to 189. Of the 34 newly imported cases, 21 were reported in Beijing, nine in the Guangdong Province, two in Shanghai, one in the Heilongjiang Province and one in the Zhejiang Province.

China so far has reported a total of 80,928 confirmed cases of the COVID-19 of which 3,245 died, while 70,420 patients were discharged after treatment.