<p>The death toll from China's new coronavirus epidemic jumped past 1,700 on Monday after 100 more people died in the hard-hit Hubei province, the epicentre of the outbreak.</p>.<p>In its daily update, the province's health commission also reported 1,933 new cases.</p>.<p>At least 70,400 people have now been infected nationwide.</p>.<p>Most are in Hubei, where the virus first emerged in December before spiralling into a nationwide epidemic.</p>.<p>The number of new cases in the province had been declining since a large spike last week when officials changed their criteria for counting cases to include people diagnosed through lung imaging.</p>.<p>Monday's figures were around 100 higher than those on Sunday but still sharply down on those from Friday and Saturday.</p>.<p>Outside of hardest-hit Hubei, the number of new cases has been declining and a spokesman for China's national health authority said Sunday that the slowing figures were a sign the outbreak was being controlled.</p>.<p>However, World Health Organisation chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus has warned it is "impossible to predict which direction this epidemic will take".</p>.<p>International experts have arrived in Beijing and begun meeting with their Chinese counterparts over the epidemic, Tedros said on Twitter. </p>
<p>The death toll from China's new coronavirus epidemic jumped past 1,700 on Monday after 100 more people died in the hard-hit Hubei province, the epicentre of the outbreak.</p>.<p>In its daily update, the province's health commission also reported 1,933 new cases.</p>.<p>At least 70,400 people have now been infected nationwide.</p>.<p>Most are in Hubei, where the virus first emerged in December before spiralling into a nationwide epidemic.</p>.<p>The number of new cases in the province had been declining since a large spike last week when officials changed their criteria for counting cases to include people diagnosed through lung imaging.</p>.<p>Monday's figures were around 100 higher than those on Sunday but still sharply down on those from Friday and Saturday.</p>.<p>Outside of hardest-hit Hubei, the number of new cases has been declining and a spokesman for China's national health authority said Sunday that the slowing figures were a sign the outbreak was being controlled.</p>.<p>However, World Health Organisation chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus has warned it is "impossible to predict which direction this epidemic will take".</p>.<p>International experts have arrived in Beijing and begun meeting with their Chinese counterparts over the epidemic, Tedros said on Twitter. </p>