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At a press briefing given by the State Council inter-agency task force on COVID-19 outbreak on 14 March, Mi Feng, NHC spokesperson and Deputy Director-General for Communications, underscored the continued decline over the past week in both locally transmitted confirmed and suspected cases on the Chinese mainland.

According to Mi, the cure rate had kept rising over the past week, which stood at 72.9% in Wuhan, 92.7% in Hubei outside Wuhan and 97.3% outside Hubei.

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Mi noted that thanks to relentless efforts, the positive momentum in epidemic control has been building up across the country.

Judging from the monitoring results by categories of low, medium and high risks, the vast majority of counties in China were at low risk as of 14 March.

Relevant provinces have published lists of counties by risk categories respectively.

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