China has reported no new local cases of the COVID-19 coronavirus for the second day in a row. And the number of deaths in China, where the virus broke out late last year, has also slowed.
The National Health Commission reported just three new fatalities, the lowest daily increase since it started publishing figures in January.
There have been nearly 81,000 infections in China but fewer than 7,000 people remain sick with the COVID-19 disease. The virus is believed to have emerged in an animal market in the central Chinese city of Wuhan in December.
Some 56 million people in Wuhan and the surrounding Hubei province were locked down in late January, but authorities are progressively easing the travel curbs as cases have dwindled.