BEIJING - China calls on the United States to see the pneumonia outbreak caused by the novel coronavirus in an objective, fair, calm and reasonable manner, and respect and cooperate with China as well as the international community to fight against the epidemic, a Foreign Ministry spokesperson said Tuesday.

The Chinese government and people are sparing no effort to fight against the epidemic, and measures to prevent the spread of the epidemic are making progress, Foreign Ministry spokesperson Hua Chunying said

The Chinese government and people are sparing no effort to fight against the epidemic, and measures to prevent the spread of the epidemic are making progress, spokesperson Hua Chunying said.

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She made the remarks when asked to comment on the remarks made by US President Donald Trump Sunday, in which he said that the United States had "basically shut it down coming from China."

Although the number of confirmed cases of novel coronavirus infection is relatively large, the fatality rate on the Chinese mainland is far lower than Ebola, SARS and MERS, said Hua, adding that the recovery rate keeps increasing.

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China is fully confident in its capacity to win the fight against the virus, Hua said.

In response to Reuters quoting Trump as saying that US officials had offered China "tremendous help" in dealing with the epidemic, Hua said that China hopes the assistance the US said it would provide to help tackle the outbreak will take place as soon as possible.

"We can't have thousands of people coming in who may have this problem - the coronavirus," Trump was quoted by Reuters as saying.

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China has noticed that the US has expressed several times its willingness to provide assistance, and hopes the assistance said will be extended as soon as possible, Hua said.

The US should view China's efforts objectively, fairly and calmly without overreaction, and respect and coordinate with such efforts, she said.