Hubei
Proper noun
Meaning
Hubei
A province in central China. Capital: Wuhan.
Synonyms
Examples
"A Chinese tourist originating from the province of Hubei, arrived in France on 16 January.
According to health officials, the Associated Press reported Sunday, 59 people had been diagnosed with the mystery illness as of January 5, with all known cases seeming to originate from Wuhan, the capital city of the Hubei province.
After entering Hubei, the Yangtze receives water from a number of lakes.
After the report, the Hubei government announced that the coronavirus death toll within the province as of midnight Wednesday rose by 242 from the day before to 1,310, with the total number of infected people jumping by 14,840 to 48,206.
According to the live dashboard of global 2019-nCov cases created by the Johns Hopkins Centre for Systems Science and Engineering, there have been four deaths outside the Hubei province, with confirmed cases in 15 other countries beside China.
All Hubei schools are postponing the start of the new semester until further notice.