China reports 45 new COVID-19 cases, mostly imported

China reported 45 new coronavirus cases on Saturday, a decrease from 54 the previous day, with all but one involving travelers from overseas.

In the last seven days, China has reported 313 imported cases and only 6 confirmed cases of domestic transmission, with most of those imported cases involving Chinese returning home from abroad.

Airlines have been ordered to sharply cut international flights from Sunday, and restrictions on foreigners entering the country went into effect on Saturday.

Five more people died on Saturday, all in Wuhan, bringing the total death toll to 3,300 with a reported 81,439 infections.

Hubei province has now gone four consecutive days without new confirmed cases.

With traffic restrictions lifted, Wuhan is gradually reopening borders and restarting some local transportation services.

All airports in Hubei resumed some domestic flights on Sunday, except for Wuhan's Tianhe airport, which will open on April 8.

A train arrived in Wuhan on Saturday, the first since the city's lockdown, with the Hubei Communist Party Secretary describing the city as 'a city full of hope' and that its people's heroism and hard work had 'basically cut off transmission' of the virus.

Saturday's sole case of domestically transmitted coronavirus was recorded in Henan province, bordering Hubei.