HUBEI Province launched 464 new projects with an average investment of more than 100 million yuan (US$14.16 million) in April, according to local authorities.

The province, once hardest hit by COVID-19, has launched a total of 979 projects between the Spring Festival, which fell Jan. 25, and April 30, covering transportation infrastructure, environmental protection and other fields.

More than 93 percent of workers in the projects that were launched before the festival have resumed work across Hubei, and in Wuhan, the capital of the province, 74.4 percent of the workforce has returned, the Hubei Provincial Development and Reform Commission said.

Industrial enterprises in fields including metal products manufacturing, printing and electronic equipment manufacturing, computing, telecom equipment manufacturing and the pharmaceutical sector have a high work resumption rate in the province based on the monitoring of electricity consumption.

No newly confirmed cases of COVID-19 were reported in Hubei on Tuesday, the provincial health commission said yesterday.

This marked that Hubei had reported no newly confirmed COVID-19 cases for 32 consecutive days since April 4.

As of Tuesday, there were no existing confirmed COVID-19 cases in the province.

The province still had 633 asymptomatic cases under medical observation, after 16 such cases were added and 33 released from quarantine Tuesday.

A total of 282,812 close contacts of COVID-19 patients in the province had been tracked by Tuesday, 1,192 of whom were still under medical observation.

As of Tuesday, Hubei had reported 68,128 confirmed COVID-19 cases in total, including 50,333 in Wuhan, the provincial capital.

Hubei lowered its level of novel coronavirus emergency response from the highest to the second-highest May 2. (Xinhua)