12,000 medical workers supporting Hubei have left the province

As of Friday, 12,000 medical workers who headed to support Wuhan from other parts of China have finished their work and left Hubei in batches, an official from the National Health Commission said at a press conference held in Beijing on Friday.

Guo Yanhong said the majority of these medical workers used to work in temporary hospitals and designated hospitals treating non-critical patients in Hubei.

But experts and teams for critically-ill patients will continue their work in Hubei until all patients are recovered, the official added.

China sent a total of 42,000 medical workers to Hubei to combat the epidemic and none of them caught the coronavirus, Guo told reporters.

Also, as the situation cools down in Hubei, where no new cases have been recorded for two consecutive days, 43 hospitals in the capital city of Wuhan have resumed normal operations accepting non-COVID-19 patients.