Even as China continued to report new cases as well as deaths due to Coronavirus, it shut one of the 16 makeshift hospitals set up in Wuhan to treat infected patients, Reuters reported on Monday quoting state broadcaster CCTV.

"The rapid rising trend of virus cases in Wuhan has been controlled... Outbreaks in Hubei outside of Wuhan are curbed and provinces outside of Hubei are showing a positive trend," Mi Feng, Reuters quoted a spokesperson for China's National Health Commission as saying. It said on Monday that with 196 cases, Hubei for the first time since January reported fewer than 200 infections in a day.