Coronavirus: number of new cases decreases and China will reopen schools

With the decrease in the number of new coronavirus cases in China, the local government decided to ease the imposition of quarantine in several cities in the province and to authorize the return to school.

Most of Hubei province, the epicenter of the Covid-19 epidemic in China, is already 24 hours away from registering a new case of infection. However, the regional capital Wuhan remains under quarantine because it registered 126 new cases of the disease on Thursday 5, according to the WHO.

Qinghai province, which has not reported a new case of the disease in 29 days, said schools will reopen until March 20. Guizhou province, with no new cases for 18 days, authorized the return to school on March 16.

In Wuhan, moods with the government are not the best. During a visit by Deputy Prime Minister Sun Chunlan to the city, residents confined to their homes booed the policy and accused the government of lying about distributing supplies to the population.

The videos of the boos were published on the social network Weibo, the most used in the country, were not censored, despite the platform being strictly controlled by the government. According to the state agency Xinhua, Chunlan called for a "deep investigation" to respond to the inhabitants' "difficulties and problems" and to guarantee the supply of basic necessities.

Outside the epicenter of the disease, cities return to normal as the spread of the virus decreases in their territory, but increases worldwide. According to the daily bulletin of the World Health Organization (WHO) , 143 new cases were registered on Thursday 6 in the Asian country and 2,100 outside of it.

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