The downward trend in China has been celebrated by the government as a major victory.
Beijing had initially concealed the outbreak – before putting millions of people in lockdown.
The mass lockdown across Hubei province came into effect at the end of January as well as strict quarantine and travel restrictions across China.
Sixty million people were forced to stay at home, including 11 million from the city of Wuhan.
The World Health Organization has praised Beijing’s response.
But not everyone appreciated the robust containment measures arguing that those heavy quarantine restrictions came at a cost.
Al Jazeera’s Sarah Clarke has more from Hong Kong.
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In This Story: Hong Kong
Hong Kong, officially the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of the People’s Republic of China (HKSAR), is a metropolitan area and special administrative region of the People’s Republic of China on the eastern Pearl River Delta of the South China Sea. With over 7.5 million residents of various nationalities in a 1,104-square-kilometre (426 sq mi) territory, Hong Kong is one of the most densely populated places in the world.
Hong Kong became a colony of the British Empire after the Qing Empire ceded Hong Kong Island at the end of the First Opium War in 1842. The colony expanded to the Kowloon Peninsula in 1860 after the Second Opium War and was further extended when Britain obtained a 99-year lease of the New Territories in 1898. The whole territory was transferred to China in 1997. As a special administrative region, Hong Kong maintains separate governing and economic systems from that of mainland China under the principle of “one country, two systems”.