China reports zero new domestic COVID-19 cases outside Hubei for second consecutive day

Forty new cases of novel coronavirus were detected in the past 24 hours as of Sunday in China. Thirty-six of the cases were from Hubei Province, while another four cases originated overseas. 

It was the second consecutive day the country detected zero new cases domestically outside Hubei Province, the number on Saturday was three.

According to China's National Health Commission, those four cases from Sunday were registered in northwest China's Gansu Province, but authorities are yet to provide information on which countries the passengers returned from.