China's National Health Commission (NHC) has reported a single new case of the novel coronavirus and no deaths for the fourth consecutive day, CNN reports.

It's a huge drop from the peak of the outbreak, when the country was reporting thousands of new cases a day, and suggests the danger there has mostly passed.

The latest case was imported from abroad, and not a local transmission, the NHC said.

The total number of confirmed infections in the country stands at 82,875, including 4,633 deaths, 77,685 recoveries and 557 active cases.