The Press Office under the Ministry of Health published Monday afternoon a press release in the latest SARS situation on the Chinese mainland. On April 28, 8 provinces reported new SARS cases, 8 provinces reported new suspected cases and 14 provinces reported no cases. By 10:00 am of April 28, 26 provinces reported SARS cases.

From 10:00 am of April 27 to 10:00 am of April 28, China reported 203 new cases (including 36 medical workers), 7 patients recovered and 8 deaths.

Of these figures:

Beijing reported 96 new cases and 3 deaths. Of the 96 cases, 37 used to be suspected cases and now are confirmed as SARS patients

Tianjin reported 21 new cases

Hebei reported 3 new cases and 3 deaths (the 3 death cases were reported yesterday and are put into today's data)

Shanxi reported 29 new cases and 1 patients recovered

Inner Mongolia reported 38 new cases and 1 death

Henan reported 1 new case

Hubei reported 1 new case

Guangdong reported 13 new cases, and 6 recovered

Gansu reported 1 new case and 1 death

By 10:00 am of April 28, China had a total of 3,106 SARS cases (including 653 medical workers, Beijing removed 11 previously-confirmed cases from current statistics), which included 1,306 patients who had recovered and been discharged from hospital and 139 deaths.

From 10:00 am of April 27 to 10:00 am of April 28, China also reported 290 new suspected cases, including 149 from Beijing, 12 from Tianjin, 8 from Hebei, 29 from Shanxi, 24 from Inner Mongolia, 1 from Heilongjiang, 1 from Shanghai, 1 from Zhejiang, 1 from Anhui, 3 from Henan, 2 from Hubei, 1 from Hunan, 51 from Guangdong, 1 from Chongqing, 4 from Sichuan, and 2 from Shaanxi. By 10:00 am of April 28, China had a total of 2,106 suspected cases.

(China.org.cn April 28, 2003)