Chinese authorities said on Wednesday that the country's death toll from the novel coronavirus has surpassed two thousand.

China's National Health Commission said that 136 new deaths and one-thousand-749 confirmed cases were reported across the nation on Tuesday. 

The country's official death toll rose to two-thousand-four, while the cumulative number of confirmed cases reached 74-thousand-185. 

The daily number of new infections, which soared to over five thousand last Thursday, remained below three-thousand for the following three days and then stayed below two-thousand on Monday and Tuesday.    

Of the latest figures, 132 deaths and one-thousand-693 new cases were reported in Hubei Province, the epicenter of the contagious virus. 

The number of new infections in the province has remained below two-thousand for four straight days.