Experts have deemed Chinese Premier Li Keqiang 's claim of controlling the coronavirus outbreak in China , on March 24 , 2020 as premature .
Although Chinese Premier Li Keqiang reported on 24 March 2020 that the spread of domestically transmitted epidemic has essentially stopped and the outbreak has been controlled in China , news publications reported that experts have doubted these claims , and described them to be premature.
2019–20 coronavirus pandemic in mainland China