Excluding Wuhan, Hubei province has reported no new infections for 8 consecutive days. FMTNews Wuhan Hubei Covid19 Coronavirus
A staff member walks down a corridor of an empty makeshift hospital that has closed in Wuhan.
The commission said on Thursday China’s coronavirus epidemic had passed its peak, even as alarm over the virus intensified elsewhere with global markets suffering record falls and governments unveiling measures to try to slow the spread of a disease that has infected more than 127,000 people worldwide.
It had also stalled the world’s second-largest economy as, beginning in January, authorities ordered work stoppages, travel restrictions and home quarantines to contain the spread of the pathogen.
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