Guangdong recently introduced a series of measures including rent reductions or exemptions and financial support to help enterprises better resume production and reduce the impact of the coronavirus epidemic. These measures have already come into effect, and will be kept in place for three months.

As of 12:00 on the 6th, Guangdong Province had reported a total of 970 confirmed cases of novel coronavirus infection.

Since the emergence of the pneumonia caused by the novel coronavirus, Guangdong government has paid it the greatest attention and taken a series of prevention and control measures.

Chinese health authorities have sent more than 11,000 medics, including the country's best ICU staff, to the city of Wuhan, the epicenter of the novel coronavirus outbreak, an official said on Friday.

Central China's Hubei Province is still in short of at least 2,250 medical personnel in face of the novel coronavirus outbreak, said a provincial official.

The head of the World Health Organization (WHO) expressed his particular gratitude and compassion on Thursday for all the people of Wuhan, the epicenter of the novel coronavirus outbreak in China.

Shanghai starting from Friday will put individuals on a credit blacklist for concealing symptoms and violating quarantine, according to the municipal legislature.

The National Supervisory Commission has decided to dispatch an inspection group to Wuhan, capital city of Hubei Province and the epicenter of the novel coronavirus outbreak, to thoroughly investigate issues related to Dr. Li Wenliang.

There is not sufficient data to prove a mother-to-child transmission of the novel coronavirus, experts said in Beijing on Friday.

The four had been infected with the novel coronavirus during work. They will return to the healthcare frontline to continue battling the novel coronavirus epidemic.