Eight patients infected with novel coronavirus pneumonia were discharged from hospital in central China's Wuhan City after being cured by a combination of traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) and Western medicine.

They are the first batch of patients to be cured using such treatment.

The patients were aged between 26 and 68, and six of them were in critical condition before the treatment.

The TCM doctors from Beijing's two hospitals arrived in Wuhan on January 28 to help fight the outbreak.