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More patients were recovering from a new type of coronavirus infection or COVID-19, and more had been discharged from the hospital, Chinese Ambassador to ASEAN Deng Xijun said.

"The situation in China is still quite challenging. However, since China has taken decisive and strict steps, the situation is getting better," Ambassador Deng said at a press conference held in Jakarta Friday.
Until Friday morning, confirmed cases of coronavirus infections reached 74,000 and the number of patients who were declared cured reached 16,000. At the same time, the death toll from the virus has risen to 2,123. These statistics showed two phenomena in the progress of handling the COVID-19 originating from Wuhan City in Hubei Province, China, since December last year. This positive development was the result of the prevention and control of the COVID-19 carried out by China, including establishing two special hospitals in just 10 days to treat most seriously affected patients, Xijun explained. Chinese authorities have also converted dozens of sports stadiums and gathering places as mobile hospitals to treat patients with mild symptoms. Around 32,000 experts, doctors and medical officers have been deployed to strengthen healthcare in Hubei Province. China has also tightened the boundary rules in several cities and suspended the school schedule, and office and factory entry since the Lunar New Year holiday to reduce movement and contact among its citizens. (ANT)