The coronavirus outbreak is currently the deadliest in Italy where 475 people died in a day due to the novel virus.?There are a total of 35,713 confirmed cases in the country, with more than 4,000 having successfully recovered.
Lombardy, the worst-hit region, recorded 319 deaths in one day.
Italy is the world's worst affected country after China, where the virus originated last year. At least 8,758 people have died, most in China. Howeverm China has is showing signs of recovering at a fast pace.
For the first time after the deadly coronavirus broke out over three months ago in Wuhan, China said that there are no new domestic cases of the COVID-19, including in the virus' epicentre, even as eight more fatalities have been reported, taking the death toll in the country to 3,245.
In its daily report, China's National Health Commission (NHC) said that no new domestically transmitted cases of the?novel coronavirus disease?were reported on the Chinese mainland on Wednesday.
However, a total of 34 new COVID-19 cases were reported on the Chinese mainland on Wednesday, all of which were from those arriving from abroad, marking a sharp increase, it said.
Of the?34 newly imported cases, 21 were reported in Beijing, nine in Guangdong Province, two in Shanghai, one in Heilongjiang Province and one in Zhejiang Province, the NHC said.
Capital of the central Hubei Province Wuhan, which bore the brunt of the coronavirus since the outbreak originated in December last year, also reported zero cases on Wednesday, marking a notable first in the city's months-long battle with the deadly virus.