BEIJING – China has closed most of the makeshift hospitals opened to receive coronavirus patients in the epidemic’s epicentre as the number of new infections in the country hit a record low.
There were 40 new cases nationwide, the National Health Commission said Monday, the lowest number of fresh cases since it started reporting the data in January.
Most of the new cases, as well as 22 new deaths, were in Hubei, the central province at the epicentre of the outbreak.
The deaths – which were all in Hubei except one – bring the country’s toll to 3,119. (AFP)
