Coronavirus: China has cured first patient since outbreak

Young women wearing facemasks walk across a square usually filled with visitors at the Hong Kong Disneyland in Hong Kong on Sunday (Jan 26), after the park announced it was shutting its doors until further notice over a deadly virus outbreak in China. Officials announced a patient has been cured in Shanghai on Sunday. - AFP

SHANGHAI: The Shanghai Municipal Health Commission has claimed that the first patient since the beginning of the deadly outbreak has been cured and discharged from hospital.

A 56-year-old woman locally identified as “Chen” was said to have been cured from the illness.