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It comes as these nations had been successful in managing its domestic cases.
China, where the virus first emerged, verified it had no brand-new domestic cases on Wednesday, for the very first time since the break out began, a major milestone.
However it reported 34 brand-new cases amongst people recently returned to China.
Singapore likewise reported 47 new cases, of which 33 were imported – 30 of them returned Singapore citizens.
Japan reported 3 brand-new cases on Wednesday. Hokkaido, the worst-affected Japanese area with 154 cases, is raising its state of emergency in place since late February, after officials said the spread of the infection appeared to be ending.
Officials have advised people to remain cautious and stay at house, but stated there had been “no surge of contaminated patients that led to the collapse of the medical environment”.
” We’ve carried out powerful steps on refraining from going out, however from now on, we will move into a phase of reducing threats of the spread of infectio