This was reported by TASS with reference to the State Committee for Hygiene and Health of China.
The total number of infected people throughout the country was 80.7 thousand.
It is clarified that the number of recovered has reached 59.8 thousand people.
Earlier it was reported that the head of the special expert commission of the State Committee of China on Health, Zhong Nanshan, believes that the spread of COVID-19 coronavirus infection in the world will continue at least until June.