Visitors tour the Palace Museum in Beijing, capital of China, May 1, 2020. China's Palace Museum, also known as the Forbidden City, partially reopened on Friday, the first day of a five-day public holiday. Visitors need to make reservations online, and the daily number of visitors is limited to 5,000. The Palace Museum stopped admitting visitors from Jan. 25 to curb the spread of the novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19). (Xinhua/Chen Zhonghao)
Chinese authorities warned of the risk of virus rebound as provinces had reported new confirmed cases over the past fortnight.
BEIJING, May 3 (Xinhua) -- The number of existing confirmed COVID-19 cases on the Chinese mainland had dropped for 11 consecutive days as of Saturday, a Chinese health official said Sunday.
The mainland reported 12 new asymptomatic cases on Saturday, the lowest figure since the daily report on COVID-19 cases included this figure, said Mi Feng, a spokesperson for the National Health Commission, at a press conference in Beijing.
However, 10 provincial-level regions had reported new locally transmitted cases or asymptomatic cases over the last 14 days, which highlighted that risks of a resurgence and even spread of the epidemic still existed, Mi noted.
"We need to keep highly vigilant and make epidemic prevention and control a part of our regular work agenda while advancing efforts to resume production and daily life," Mi added. ■
