First assistance teams return

My job here is done: A member of the national emergency medical rescue team from Tianjin gesturing before leaving Wuhan. — Xinhua

Beijing: The first group of medical assistance teams departed Wuhan, Hubei province, the nation’s epicentre of the Covid-19 outbreak, as the epidemic situation markedly improved in the hardest-hit city.

The 3,787 medical workers belonging to 49 medical teams from across the country returned to their homes as only one confirmed infection was reported in the city on Monday.