March 7 - Collapse of Xinjia Express Hotel March 10 - Communist Party of China general secretary Xi Jinping visits Wuhan, the origin of the COVID-19 pandemic, after an unprecedented lockdown of the central city of 11 million people.[9] March 24 - Chinese Premier Li Keqiang reported that spread of domestically transmitted epidemic has been basically blocked and the COVID-19 pandemic has been controlled in China.[10]