The trend of COVID-19 outbreak outside Hubei Province in Mainland China
The trend of COVID-19 outbreak outside Hubei Province in Mainland China was quite different from that in Wuhan or Hubei due to timely intervention measures. As of March 26, 2020, the numbers of cumulative confirmed and death cases were 13,540 and 118 respectively outside Hubei. The daily number of new confirmed case outside Hubei reached a peak of 880 on February 3 and decreased over time. Recently, the daily numbers of new confirmed cases are very low and mostly cases contracted outside China. The overall death toll outside Hubei is much lower with a CFR of 0.87% as of March 26, 2020. It is gratifying to see that daily number of recovered cases is increasing rapidly both inside and outside Hubei with the latest recover rate as 91.05% and 94.88% as of March 26, 2020, respectively. It is worth noting that there were up to 19 provinces reporting zero new infections, and almost all provinces with new cases are imported cases as of March 26, 2020, especially in highly prevalent provinces like Hunan which was no new infections over 27 days.