China honors coronavirus victims with 3 minutes of silence

In this photo released by China's Xinhua News Agency, an honor guard stands in formation as a Chinese national flag flies at half-staff at Tiananmen Square in Beijing on Saturday.(Ju Huanzong/AP)

China held three minutes of silence for victims of coronavirus Saturday.

The ceremonies were held in all major cities, The Associated Press reported. That included Wuhan, where the worldwide outbreak began.

Officially, 3,300 people in China have died from COVID-19, though the true numbers are much higher according to multiple reports.

Wuhan is set to have it’s quarantine lifted Wednesday, according to the AP. The government praised it as a “heroic city.”

China says that around 82,000 people in the country were infected with COVID-19.