New Delhi (NVI): China today announced that it will lift travel restrictions from Hubei Province, which emerged as the epicenter of coronavirus outbreak in December last year.
According to reports in foreign media, healthy residents will be allowed to leave the province from Tuesday midnight.
However, the travel ban in Wuhan, the provincial capital and the epicenter of the outbreak, will be lifted from April 8, according to media reports. The city has been on lockdown since January 23.
China has reported a drastic fall in the number of fresh COVID-19 cases even as the disease has spread to other parts of the world in the form of a pandemic.
In the United States, Monday appeared to be the deadliest day caused by the outbreak, with more than 100 deaths reported in a single day.
New York state confirmed 20,000 infections, Governor Andrew Cuomo said.
More governors have imposed rules and shutdowns in their cities in order to curb the outbreak. At least 15 states have issued stay-at-home orders that are either in effect or will take effect this week.
So far, More than 42,000 people in the United States have been infected with coronavirus, and at least 515 people have died.
In addition to this, Italy has reported more than 600 fatalities today, taking the total number of fatalities to 6,077 with the total cases rising to more than 63,000 in the country, according to media reports.
In the UK, the total number of deaths from the disease COVID-19, increased by 54, bringing the toll in the country to 335 among 6,650 cases. Meanwhile, Prime Minister Boris Johnson ordered residents across the country to stay at home.
The World Health Organization (WHO) Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus warned “the pandemic is accelerating” with it taking 67 days for cases to reach the 100,000 mark globally, 11 days for cases to reach 200,000 and just four days for cases to reach 300,000.
More than 15,400 people have died from COVID-19 globally. An estimated 100,000 of the 362,000 people who have been diagnosed with the disease across the world have recovered, according to data collected by Johns Hopkins University.
