Wuhan: The Chinese Wuhan city which was hardest by the Coronavirus outbreak in the country, cleared all COVID-19 cases in the hospital on Sunday.

A health official said on Sunday said the number of hospitalized COVID-19 patients in Wuhan, the capital of Hubei province where the coronavirus pandemic originated last December, has dropped to zero, a health official said on Sunday.

Mi Feng, a spokesperson for China's National Health Commission, at a press conference in Beijing said, "The result was achieved with the hard efforts of medical workers in Wuhan and those who were dispatched to assist the city in the fight against the virus from across the country".

Xinhua news agency reported the last patient in severe condition in Wuhan was cured Friday, reducing the number of such patients in the city to zero.

In Hubei province, the number of existing COVID-19 cases has dropped below 50 for the first time.

No new confirmed cases of the disease have been reported for over 20 days in the province.

Also on Sunday, the National Health Commission reported that there were 12 active COVID-19 cases in the city of Wuhan.

Efe news reported that the health authorities said that, until Sunday midnight, 11 people had been discharged after overcoming the infection in Wuhan, making the total number of "active" infections both in the city and throughout Hubei 12.

China reported 11 new cases in the last 24 hours, five of which were imported.

Of the remaining six cases, "local" infections, five were diagnosed in the province of Heilongjiang, where an outbreak of travelers from Russia has been detected in recent days, forcing a border closure.

The other was in the province of Guangzhou.

It is also the 11th consecutive day in which no fatalities were registered, so the total number of deaths remains at 4,632, among the 82,827 officially diagnosed cases in China since the start of the pandemic.

More than 200,000 people globally have died of the new coronavirus including more than 50,000 in the US. It has infected nearly three million people across the world.