An outbreak of coronavirus in China.

Several cities across China, including Wuhan where coronavirus was first recorded, have gone into lockdown. Around14,878 new cases of Covid-19 have been detected, 1,711 were symptomatic and 13,167 were asymptomatic. Meanwhile, a day earlier, among 11,950 cases detected, 1,504 cases were symptomatic and 10,446 cases were of asymptomatic infections. Wholly, China has confirmed 271,968 cases with symptoms.

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