China says that a World Health Organisation, WHO, delegation of experts will visit Beijing and the provinces of Guangdong and Sichuan from Monday onwards, to conduct on-site investigations.
According to the country’s National Health Commission, the death toll from the COVID-19 outbreak in Mainland China, reached 1,770 as of the end of Sunday, up by 105 from the previous day.
There were 2,048 new confirmed infections across Mainland China reported on Sunday.
The total accumulated number of cases reported is 70,548, of which 10,844 people have been treated and discharged from hospital.
An official from the National Health Commission said that the percentage of patients who are critically ill in Wuhan had dropped to 18 per cent now from 38 per cent at the beginning of the outbreak.
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More than 94 per cent of the new cases on Sunday were in the central province of Hubei, where the outbreak is concentrated.
The province announced on Sunday that it would further tighten traffic restrictions in order to try and curb the outbreak.
