China's Covid-19 death toll goes past 3,000

Medical staff assist a recovered Covid-19 patient leave a Wuhan hospital on March 4, 2020. - AFP

BEIJING (AFP): China on Thursday (March 5) reported 31 more deaths from the new coronavirus epidemic, taking the country's overall toll past 3,000, with the number of new infections slightly increasing.

At least 3,012 people have now died nationwide in the outbreak that first emerged in the central city of Wuhan, capital of Hubei province, in December.