China records 2 straight days of fewer than 1,000 new COVID-19 cases

China recorded fewer than 1,000 new coronavirus infections on two consecutive days earlier this week, its health authorities said Friday, after the country stopped including clinically diagnosed cases of the pneumonia-causing virus in its daily tallies.The health authorities said they received reports of 889 new cases on Thursday, more than double Wednesday's 394, bringing the tally in mainland China to 75,465.The death toll from the COVID-19 virus has reached 2,236, after an increase of 118 on the mainland on Thursday, 115 of them in the central province of Hubei at the center of the epide…READ FULL ARTICLE