Chung Nan-chang, Head of the Experts Commission under the State’s Committee for Public Health in China, confirms the first case of the infection with Coronavirus was registered in Hubei Province but China maybe not the origin of the deadly virus.
The senior Chinese official held a news conference on Thursday to brief the world on new developments of destructive effects of the virus.
He revealed that the health authorities in the country take into consideration the epidemic possibilities in the current period without interest in what is happening in the other states.
He pointed out that there are infections in other countries across the world.
Chung affirmed that despite discovering the first case of infection in China that doesn’t mean that the country is the origin of the infections at all.
On the other hand, the local health officials in California, USA, warn that they discovered the first infection of transmitting the deadly virus among humans in the state.
They said that there is no known connection between the new case and any infected people.
China reported 433 new cases of Coronavirus infections on Feb. 26, the National Health Commission said on Thursday, up from 406 a day earlier, with a cluster of new cases in Beijing raising concerns about the management of employees returning to work.
The total number of confirmed cases on mainland China has now reached 78,497, the Commission said, though the number of new deaths on Wednesday stood at 29, the lowest daily rate since Jan. 28.
The outbreak has now killed a total of 2,744 people in China.
Hubei, the central Chinese province at the epicenter of the outbreak, reported 409 new cases and 26 deaths on Wednesday.
Beijing and the provinces of Heilongjiang and Henan were the locations of the other three fatalities.
The number of new cases outside Hubei stood at 24, up from 5 on the previous day and reversing five days of declines. Ten of those were in Beijing.
A statement published by the Commission on Thursday, citing a meeting held the previous day, said that the situation in Hubei province and Wuhan is "still complex and serious", and added that the risk of a rebound in infection in other regions should not be overlooked.
Also, some Coronavirus patients were discharged from hospitals, after recovery they were readmitted after testing positive again, health authorities said recently.
A health official in southern Guangdong province told state media on Wednesday that 14% of patients discharged from the hospital experienced a resurgence of the virus, although they had not infected others they had been in close contact with.
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