China will facilitate more foreign companies in resuming work and production amid the novel coronavirus epidemic in order to stabilize the global supply chain, a senior official of the Ministry of Commerce said on Monday.

BEIJING — China’s unprecedented public health responses to the COVID-19 outbreak have yielded notable results in blocking human-to-human transmission of the virus, preventing or at least delaying hundreds of thousands of cases, said a joint expert team consisting of experts from China and the World Health Organization.