Partial Withdrawal of COVID-19 Medical Team Dispatched to Hubei Province Due to Situation Improvement

[Asia Economy Beijing=Special Correspondent Park Sun-mi] The Chinese medical support team dispatched to Hubei Province is undergoing withdrawal procedures as the COVID-19 situation improves.

On the 17th, China's state-run Xinhua News Agency reported that reflecting the significant containment of the COVID-19 outbreak, some members of the first medical support team sent to Hubei Province left Hubei around 7 a.m. that day to withdraw. The first medical personnel to withdraw were identified as 43 medical staff dispatched from Shanxi Province.

Initially, Chinese authorities judged that there was a shortage of medical personnel due to the concentration of confirmed COVID-19 patients in Hubei Province, and dispatched 3,675 medical staff belonging to 41 medical teams nationwide to 14 temporary hospitals and 7 designated hospitals within Hubei Province.

According to the National Health Commission of China (NHC), the number of new confirmed COVID-19 cases reported in China in one day was 21. Among the 21 new confirmed cases, only one patient was from Wuhan, Hubei Province, known as the origin of COVID-19. This is the first time that only one new confirmed case has been reported in Wuhan, Hubei Province, where patients are most concentrated. The remaining 20 cases were all reported as overseas imported cases.

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