China’s new confirmed cases of novel coronavirus pneumonia outside Hubei Province, where the epicenter city of Wuhan is located, has been dropping for 14 consecutive days, according to the National Health Commission. Till 18th Feb, 12563 patients were released from hospitals after being cured in the mainland of China, achieving an overall cure rate of 17.3% (out of 72530 total confirmed cases), compared to the rate of 1.3% on 27 January. The figures show that treatment measures are achieving effective results across the country.

Favilavir, formerly known as Fapilavir, an antiviral that has shown efficacy in treating the novel coronavirus, was approved for marketing, the Taizhou government in Zhejiang province announced Sunday.

On the afternoon of 17 February, the State Council inter-agency task force on responding to the novel coronavirus pneumonia (NCP, or COVID-19) outbreak held a press briefing on the latest progress in medical treatment of NCP cases.

BEIJING, Feb. 18 (Xinhua) — China’s daily new confirmed cases of the novel coronavirus pneumonia outside Hubei, the epicenter province of the outbreak, have dropped for 14 consecutive days, according to the National Health Commission Tuesday.