Chinese President, Xi Jinping, arrived in Wuhan, the epicentre of the coronavirus outbreak, for an inspection of epidemic control and prevention work on Tuesday, state news agency Xinhua reported.
According to state broadcaster CCTV, Xi will visit frontline medical workers, military officers, social workers, police, local residents and grassroots Communist Party cadres.
His trip came as China reported its lowest number of new cases on Tuesday since the daily reporting on infections began seven weeks ago.
Earlier, the Chinese health authorities reported 19 new cases of the novel coronavirus and 17 deaths nationwide, according to statistics released on Tuesday by the National Health Commission.
Seventeen of the new cases and all 17 new deaths were recorded in Hubei province, where the outbreak of the disease caused by the virus, Covid-19, first occurred in December 2019.
The capital Beijing and Guangdong province confirmed one new case each, as the data continues to show containment of the virus within Hubei and a drop-off in the number of new cases and deaths within the province.
The nation’s total number of infections is now 7,513, the Korea Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said.
The total number of deaths in South Korea rose by three overnight to 54, the KCDC said.
About 63 per cent of confirmed cases have been linked to a branch of the Shincheonji religious sect in the city of Daegu, news agency Yonhap reports.
At a State Council news conference held on Tuesday afternoon, authorities announced that the building had undergone multiple instances of remodelling against regulations and called the tragedy a lesson paid for in blood in enforcing construction standards.
The owner of the building has been held in police custody since the collapse.
dpa/NAN.
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