Wuhan city in Hubei Province, China, where COVID-19 coronavirus began to spread, was declared a low-risk area by the country’s authorities on Saturday.
“The risk level is low throughout Wuhan City and there are no medium or high risk cities or counties in the province”, – the headquarters said.
Thus, there are no high-risk cities or counties left in Hubei Province. All 13 Wuhan districts are also recognized as low-risk zones.
According to the previously introduced classification, low risk areas are those where no confirmed coronavirus cases have been detected at all or new cases have not been recorded for 14 consecutive days.
Areas at medium risk are those where there have been confirmed cases in the last 14 days but no more than 50 cases in two weeks or where more than 50 cases in 14 days have been identified but no group and mass outbreaks have been reported.
If more than 50 cases had been reported in the 14 days, including group contamination, such counties, towns and districts were considered high-risk zones.