Since the pandemic coronavirus outbreak in China in December 2019, the country everyday records new local infections cases.
But for the first time since the coronavirus crisis began, China on Thursday reported no new local infections for the previous day.
This is described by The Newyork Times as a milestone in its costly battle with the outbreak that has since become a pandemic, upending daily life and economic activity around the world.
Officials said 34 new coronavirus cases had been confirmed, all involving people who had come to China from elsewhere.

New York Times reports that China is not out of danger yet. Experts have said that it will need to see at least 14 consecutive days without new infections for the outbreak to be considered truly over.
It remains to be seen whether the virus will re-emerge once daily life restarts and travel restrictions are lifted around the country.
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“The question is what will happen if there’s a second wave because the kind of measures that China has implemented is not necessarily sustainable in the long term.”
To contain the outbreak, the authorities shut schools and workplaces and imposed travel and quarantine restrictions on broad swaths of the population and many visitors from abroad.
Since January, more than 50 million people in the central province of Hubei, including its capital, Wuhan, where the outbreak began, have been subjected to a strict lockdown.