BEIJING (Reuters) – China’s central Hubei province had 349 new confirmed cases of coronavirus on Wednesday, the province’s health commission said on Thursday, down from 1,693 cases a day earlier and the lowest since Jan. 25.
That brings the total number of confirmed cases in Hubei to 62,031.
The death toll in Hubei from the outbreak reached 2,029 as of the end of Wednesday, up by 108 from the previous day.
Most of the new deaths on Wednesday were in Hubei’s provincial capital of Wuhan, where the virus is believed to have originated.
Wuhan reported 88 new deaths, down from 116 on Tuesday. A total of 1,585 people in Wuhan have now died from the virus.
Reporting by Ryan Woo; Editing by Bill Berkrot and Lisa Shumaker
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