-- Noting that 693 imported cases from 42 countries have been reported by the end of Saturday, Mi Feng, a spokesperson for the National Health Commission, said the possibility of the epidemic spreading remains relatively high on the Chinese mainland.

 

Mi added that local transmission of COVID-19 has been basically blocked, with the number of existing domestic cases having dropped below 3,000.

 

-- Medical experts from the Union Hospital affiliated to Tongji Medical College of Huazhong University of Science and Technology in Wuhan held a video conference with their counterparts in State University of New York Upstate Medical University Saturday, sharing experience of COVID-19 prevention and treatment.

 

-- Hubei has realized complete disposal of its previous medical waste and wastewater, and achieved total treatment of newly-added waste within 24 hours.

 

-- A total of 7,098 people who work or live in Beijing took 12 high-speed trains back to the capital from Wednesday to Saturday, after the lockdown of Hubei was lifted.

 

-- The Jack Ma Foundation and the Alibaba Foundation announced Sunday donations of essential medical supplies to seven more countries, namely Azerbaijan, Bhutan, India, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan and Vietnam.

 

The Fosun Foundation, based in Shanghai, also donated a batch of face masks to two hospitals in Sardegna, Italy this week, in response to a local doctor's call for support in mid-March.

 

-- The Chinese mainland reported 45 new confirmed COVID-19 cases on Saturday, 44 of which were imported and one domestic case in Henan Province. Five deaths and 28 new suspected cases were reported on the mainland, with all the deaths in Hubei Province.

 

-- The overall confirmed cases on the mainland had reached 81,439 by the end of Saturday, including 75,448 patients who had been discharged after recovery, and 3,300 people who died of the disease.

 

-- Wuhan continued to report no new confirmed cases of COVID-19 on Saturday.

 

-- Domestic passenger flights resumed operations Sunday in Hubei except for Wuhan, with cargo flights restoring operations in all airports across the province.

 

-- Wuhan on Saturday reopened its subway and railway station following more than two months of suspension.

 

-- A China-Europe freight train carrying medical supplies, among others, left Wujiashan railway container center station in Wuhan at 10 a.m. on Saturday, heading for Germany, which marked the service resumption of China-Europe freight trains in the city.

 

-- Hubei had removed all 1,450 highway checkpoints, except 51 others in Wuhan, to lift outbound traffic curbs as of Friday.