BEIJING, March 28 (Xinhua) -- Here are the latest developments on the novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in China:

-- Wuhan, a central Chinese city once at the epicenter of the COVID-19 outbreak, on Saturday reopened its subway and railway station following more than two months of suspension due to the epidemic.

-- A China-Europe freight train carrying medical supplies, among others, left Wujiashan railway container center station in Wuhan at 10 a.m. on Saturday, heading for Germany, which marked the service resumption of China-Europe freight trains in the city.

-- China's leading genome sequencing provider BGI announced Friday that it has received an emergency use authorization from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for its test kits detecting COVID-19.

It means that the product, named Real-Time Fluorescent RT-PCR Kit for Detecting SARS-2019-nCoV, has obtained the qualification to officially enter the clinical market in the United States, according to BGI's announcement.

-- Over 79 million members of the Communist Party of China (CPC) have voluntarily made donations totaling 8.26 billion yuan (about 1.17 billion U.S. dollars) for the COVID-19 prevention and control as of Thursday.

-- Chinese health authority said Saturday it received reports of 54 new confirmed COVID-19 cases on the Chinese mainland on Friday, all of which were imported. Three deaths and 29 new suspected cases were reported on the mainland, with all the deaths in Wuhan, Hubei Province.

-- The overall confirmed cases on the mainland had reached 81,394 by the end of Friday, including 3,128 patients who were still being treated, 74,971 patients who had been discharged after recovery, and 3,295 people who died of the disease.

-- Twenty provincial-level regions on the Chinese mainland had reported no new domestic COVID-19 cases for more than 28 days by the end of Friday.

-- Wuhan continued to report no new confirmed cases of COVID-19 on Friday.

The health commission of Hubei, of which Wuhan is the capital, said Saturday the province also registered zero increase in new COVID-19 cases on Friday.

-- Hubei had removed all 1,450 highway checkpoints, except 51 others in Wuhan, to lift outbound traffic curbs as of Friday.

-- Domestic passenger flights will, starting from March 29, resume operations in Hubei except Wuhan, with cargo flights restoring operations in all airports across the province, according to the Civil Aviation Administration of China.

-- Beijing reported one new confirmed case of COVID-19 from the United States over the past 12 hours by Saturday noon, and three imported cases on Friday, bringing the total number of imported cases in the national capital to 157.

-- Shanghai reported 17 new confirmed cases of COVID-19 from overseas on Friday, all have been sent to designated hospitals for treatment. A total of 88 close contacts on flights have been put under concentrated medical observation.