中国没有新的确诊病例冠状病毒自从去年年底爆发以来，这是第一次。
周六，中国国家卫生委员会表示，mainland China只有两起疑似病例，一个在上海，另一个在中国东北的基连省。同时，北京官员说，无症状病例的数量从35例下降到28例。
本月早些时候，武汉报告了自疫情爆发以来的第一批病例，促使地方当局对该市1100万居民进行了检测。此后，中国新确诊病例的缺乏将成为北京方面的一个突破口。
旅行限制有助于中国控制大部分地区的疫情，但北京方面以东北吉林省和黑龙江省出现新的感染群为由，拒绝了放松已实施的严格措施的可能性。
此外，路透社(Reuters)周六报道称，中国继续出现大量进口病例，主要归因于中国公民在限制其公民旅行能力之前已经回国。
约翰·霍普金斯大学的数据显示，中国已经有超过4600人死亡，该大学一直在使用综合数据来源追踪疫情自从武汉首次发现冠状病毒爆发以来去年12月。
自该病毒首次在中国中部最大的城市湖北出现以来的6个月里，中国已报告病例84081例，确诊病例超过79300例。截至周六上午，全球感染人数达到520万，死亡人数超过33.8万，痊愈人数接近210万。
中国应对冠状病毒大流行的方式受到了严厉批评。
北京官员被指控隐瞒了疫情的重要信息向世界卫生组织施压淡化危机的严重性。
中国还受到西方的批评，称其故意开展错误的宣传活动，旨在转移人们对外国不当反应的关注，同时寻求免除自己对疫情爆发的任何责任。
自从这种新型冠状病毒在武汉首次出现以来，六个月过去了，它的起源仍未完全确定。
这张档案照片显示的是2020年4月16日，在中国中部湖北省武汉市，一名医务工作者从一名正在接受COVID-19新型冠状病毒检测的男子身上提取拭子样本。
其中一个假设认为，该病毒源自该市的一个湿市场，据信该病毒可能通过另一种充当媒介的动物从蝙蝠传播到人类。
唐纳德·特朗普总统然而，国务卿迈克·庞贝一再声称病毒实际上是从武汉病毒学研究所。
他们的说法没有任何证据支持，反而加剧了华盛顿和北京之间的紧张关系，这与特朗普在病毒首次出现时的立场形成了鲜明对比。
疫情开始时，特朗普赞扬了中国对危机的反应，并声称美国将与北京密切合作应对疫情。
与此同时，COVID-19的爆发对中国经济造成了重大打击。
上周五，北京方面30年来首次拒绝设定国内生产总值(GDP)增长目标。今年前三个月，中国经济收缩了6.8%，至少是自1992年以来的首次收缩，预计在这一年中还会进一步下降。中国自1990年首次开始公布估算数据以来，首次选择不设定国内生产总值目标。
中国总理李克强在周五的全国人民代表大会开幕式上说:“我们没有设定今年经济增长的具体目标。”。“这是因为我们的国家将面临一些难以预测的发展因素，因为COVID-19大流行和世界经济贸易环境存在很大的不确定性。”
China Reports First Day of Zero Coronavirus Deaths or Symptomatic Cases as Wuhan Tests 11M Residents
China has recorded no new confirmed cases of the coronavirus for the first time since the outbreak began at the end of last year.
On Saturday, the country's National Health Commission said there were only two suspected cases in mainland China, one in Shanghai and one in the Jilian province in the northeast of the country. Meanwhile, the number of asymptomatic cases fell from 35 to 28, Beijing officials said.
The lack of new confirmed cases in China will come as a break for Beijing after earlier this month Wuhan reported its first cluster of cases since the outbreak began, prompting local authorities to test the city's 11 million residents.
Travel restrictions have helped China to keep the epidemic under control in large parts of the country, but Beijing has pushed back against the prospect of relaxing the strict measures it has implemented, citing new clusters of infections in the northeastern provinces of Jilin and Heilongjiang.
Additionally, Reuters reported on Saturday that China has continued to see an influx of imported cases, largely attributed to Chinese nationals that have returned home before the country limited its citizens' ability to travel.
Figures from Johns Hopkins University, which has been tracking the outbreak using combined data sources, indicate that over 4,600 deaths have been recorded in China since the outbreak of coronavirus was first identified in Wuhan in December last year.
In the six months since the virus first appeared in the biggest city of China's central Hubei province, there have been 84,081 reported cases in the country with over 79,300 confirmed recoveries. As of Saturday morning, the global infection toll reached 5.2 million, with more than 338,000 deaths and almost 2.1 million recoveries.
China has come under severe criticism for the way it has handled the coronavirus pandemic.
Beijing officials are accused of concealing vital information about the outbreak while pressuring the World Health Organization to downplay the severity of the crisis.
China has also been criticized by the West of deliberately carrying out a misinformation campaign aimed at shifting the focus on foreign nations' perceived inadequate response, while looking to absolve itself of any responsibilities for the outbreak.
Six months on since the novel coronavirus first emerged in Wuhan, its origins are yet to be fully ascertained.
This file photo shows a medical worker taking a swab sample from a man being tested for the COVID-19 novel coronavirus in Wuhan in China's central Hubei province on April 16, 2020.
One of the hypothesis suggests the virus originated from one of the city's wet markets, where the virus is believed to have jumped from bats to humans possibly via another animal acting as intermediary.
President Donald Trump and Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, however, have repeatedly alleged that the virus actually escaped from the Wuhan Institute of Virology.
Their claim has not been substantiated by any evidence and has served to stoke tensions between Washington and Beijing, a development in stark contrast with Trump's stance when the virus first emerged.
As the outbreak began, Trump praised China's response to the crisis and claimed the U.S. would work closely with Beijing to address the pandemic.
Meanwhile, the COVID-19 outbreak has dealt a major blow to China's economy.
On Friday, Beijing opted against setting a target for gross domestic product (GDP) growth for the first time in 30 years. In the first three months of the year, the Chinese economy shrank 6.8 percent, the first contraction since 1992 at least, and is expected to decline further over the course of the year. China has chosen not to set a GDP target for the first time since 1990, when it first began publishing estimates.
"We have not set a specific target for economic growth this year," Chinese premier Li Keqiang said at the opening of the National People's Congress on Friday. "This is because our country will face some factors that are difficult to predict in its development due to the great uncertainty regarding the COVID-19 pandemic and the world economic and trade environment."
