Daily novel coronavirus pneumonia cases further drop outside epicenter province

China's new confirmed cases of novel coronavirus pneumonia outside Hubei Province, where the epicenter city of Wuhan is located, has been dropping for six consecutive days, according to the National Health Commission.

A total of 444 new confirmed cases were reported on Sunday outside Hubei, the data showed.

The numbers of new confirmed cases in these provinces during the past days were 890 on Monday, 731 on Tuesday, 707 on Wednesday, 696 on Thursday, 558 on Friday and 509 on Saturday.

The commission received reports of 3,062 new confirmed cases and 97 deaths on Sunday from 31 provincial-level regions and the Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps.