The Press Office under the Ministry of Health published Sunday afternoon a press release in the latest SARS situation on the Chinese mainland. On May 4, 20 provinces reported new SARS cases, of which, 10 provinces reported both new SARS cases and new suspected cases, 2 provinces reported new SARS cases and 8 provinces reported new suspected cases, and the remaining 11 provinces reported no case. By 10:00 am of May 4, 26 provinces have reported SARS cases. So far, Hainan, Guizhou, Yunnan, Qinghai provinces and Tibet Autonomous Region have not found any SARS cases. In addition, Fujian Province has reported no new case for 26 days while Shandong Province has reported no new cases for 10 days.

From 10:00 am of May 3 to 10:00 am of May 4, China reported 163 new cases (including 18 medical workers), 10 patients recovered and 7 deaths. Of the 163 cases, 83 used to be suspected cases and now are confirmed as SARS patients.

Of these figures:

Beijing reported 69 new cases (of which 26 used to be suspected cases and now are confirmed as SARS patients), 3 patients recovered and 4 deaths

Tianjin reported 9 new cases (of which 4 used to be suspected cases and now are confirmed as SARS patients)

Hebei reported 19 new cases (of which 9 used to be suspected cases and now are confirmed as SARS patients) and 2 deaths

Shanxi reported 11 new cases (of which 8 used to be suspected cases and now are confirmed as SARS patients) and 3 patients recovered

Inner Mongolia reported 35 new cases (of which 25 used to be suspected cases and now are confirmed as SARS patients)

Jilin reported 4 new cases and 1 death

Shanghai reported 2 new cases

Jiangxi reported 1 new case

Guangdong reported 9 new cases (all of them used to be suspected cases and now are confirmed as SARS patients) and 4 patients recovered

Chongqing reported 1 new case (who used to be a suspected case and now is confirmed as SARS patient)

Sichuan reported 1 new case (who used to be a suspected case and now is confirmed as SARS patient)

Gansu reported 2 new cases

By 10:00 am of May 4, China had a total of 4,125 SARS cases (including 832 medical workers), which included 1,416 patients who had recovered and been discharged from hospital and 197 deaths. Beijing reported 7 patients who had been falsely diagnosed with SARS. Shanxi reported 1 patient who had been falsely diagnosed with SARS. Anhui reported 1 patient who had been falsely diagnosed with SARS.

From 10:00 am of May 3 to 10:00 am of May 4, China also reported 222 new suspected cases, including 90 from Beijing, 9 from Tianjin, 8 from Hebei, 20 from Shanxi, 14 from Inner Mongolia, 3 from Jilin, 2 from Jiangsu, 1 from Zhejiang, 1 from Anhui, 1 from Henan, 1 from Hubei, 61 from Guangdong, 2 from Guangxi, 2 from Chongqing, 2 from Sichuan and 3 from Shaanxi.

From 10:00 am of May 3 to 10:00 am of May 4, China reported 93 patients who had been falsely diagnosed with suspected cases, of which, 56 from Guangdong, 20 from Beijing, 7 from Shanxi, 5 from Inner Mongolia, 2 from Anhui, 1 from Liaoning, 1 from Shanghai, and 1 from Sichuan. By 10:00 am of May 4, China had a total of 2,599 suspected cases.

(China.org.cn May 4, 2003)