No deaths and no new cases: China

China reported no new confirmed cases and no deaths in its latest coronavirus report Saturday.

The report by China’s National Health Commission — which included data up to Friday — was the first since the pandemic began that reported no original infections.

According to NBC News, it’s been more than a month since anyone in China has died from COVID-19. More than 84,000 Chinese have been infected with coronavirus, which has killed 4,638 people there, according to Johns Hopkins University.

The Chinese government imposed strict travel restrictions in March that are credited for slowing the spread of the highly contagious virus within its borders. But China saw some new cases earlier this spring as Chinese nationals returned home from abroad.

An official in Wuhan, China, where the coronavirus was first detected late last year, proposed measures to alert the public and contain future viral outbreaks Friday, according to Newsweek.

“The response to the epidemic this time has exposed several shortcomings of the relevant infectious disease prevention and response systems,” National People’s Congress deputy Zhou Hongyu reportedly said.

Zhou introduced more than two dozen proposals to the the National People’s Congress — a legislative body — to address the coronavirus crisis and prevent future pandemics.

Critics including President Trump fault the Chinese government for taking too long to notify international health officials of the looming threat the virus presented. More than 1.6 million Americans have been infected by coronavirus and nearly 97,000 have died. The Chinese government’s official figures have also been questioned.

The first COVID-19 case was detected in China as early as Nov. 17, Hong Kong’s South China Morning Post reported in March. China notified the World Health Organization on Dec. 31 of an outbreak of illnesses with symptoms resembling pneumonia.