BLITZER: Now to China where this coronavirus outbreak originated, government officials there are now saying there are no new locally transmitted cases for the fourth day in a row. This comes at a time when the world is so desperate for hope. CNN's Ivan Watson is joining us now live from Hong Kong with the very latest. Ivan, these fingers are coming. We're going to cannot independently confirm their validity. Should this reporting there'll be seen as reason for optimism as or is there reason to be skeptical?</s>IVAN WATSON, CNN INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: Well, I think we always have to take some of China's official announcements with a grain of salt. But certainly there does appear to, if you look at the statistics that the Chinese government has been publishing throughout its crisis with coronavirus, the number of infections has plummeted. Just a few weeks ago, China was reporting on a daily basis, thousands of new cases of coronavirus and hundreds of deaths a day. Now, the new figures for Saturday have just been published, and 46 new cases in the country on Saturday and it says that 45 of those new cases were all quote unquote, "imported," as in people flying in from outside the country, bringing the virus back to the country where it was first discovered back in late December. Another headline from China's official statistics, Wolf, are that this is the fourth straight day with no new cases from Hubei Province, the capital of which Wuhan is where the disease was first discovered. Those are impressive numbers, if they're in fact accurate.</s>BLITZER: Indeed, if in fact, they're accurate. Thank you very much, Ivan, for that. Ivan Watson reporting from Hong Kong. Just ahead, you might know him for being six degrees away from just about anyone, but now he's all about six degrees of staying home. There you see him Kevin Bacon. He's standing by live to explain. He's got some important messages for you.
China Reports No New Local Infections For Fourth Day