Drop in New Coronavirus Cases in China Offers Hope That Its Outbreak Is Ebbing
With pace of new cases slowing, several Chinese provinces lower their health-alert levels.
BEIJING—The number of daily coronavirus infections in China outside of Hubei province, the epicenter of the epidemic, dropped to just nine new cases, authorities said Tuesday, offering fresh hope that the worst has passed in China even as the pathogen raises new alarms in other parts of the world.
The drop to just nine new cases outside of Hubei on Monday marks the lowest daily increase in more than a month, and a dramatic turn from the...