Hubei province, center of the novel coronavirus outbreak, reported 631 new confirmed cases of the novel coronavirus by the end of Thursday, according to the province's health commission.

The commission said the total number of infections in the province was 62,662 by Thursday, of which 45,346 were in its capital Wuhan.

As of Thursday, death toll from the novel coronavirus topped 2,144 in Hubei. Of them, 1,684 were in Wuhan, followed by Xiaogan with 94 deaths and Huanggang with 90 deaths.

A total of 11,788 people in the province have been discharged from hospitals while 42,056 people remain hospitalized, of which 8,979 cases were in severe condition and 2018 were critically endangered.

The commission has traced 225,696 people with contact with patients. of them, 63,126 are still under medical observation.