The Press Office under the Ministry of Health published Monday
afternoon a press release in the latest SARS situation on the
Chinese mainland. On May 5, 14 provinces reported new SARS cases,
of which, 9 provinces reported both new SARS cases and new
suspected cases and 5 provinces reported new suspected SARS cases,
and the remaining 17 provinces reported no case. By 10:00 am of May
5, 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 27 days while Shandong Province has reported no new
case for 11 days. What's more, Liaoning, Heilongjiang, Zhejiang,
Hunan provinces and Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region have reported
no new case for 5 successive days.
From 10:00 am of May 4 to 10:00 am of May 5, China reported 160 new
cases, 17 patients recovered and 9 deaths. Of the 160 cases, 88
used to be suspected cases and now are confirmed as SARS
patients.
Of
these figures:
- Beijing reported 98 new cases (of which 58 used to be suspected
cases and now are confirmed as SARS patients), 3 patients recovered
and 3 deaths
- Tianjin reported 9 new cases and 1 death
- Hebei reported 9 new cases (of which 6 used to be suspected
cases and now are confirmed as SARS patients) and one patient
recovered
- Shanxi reported 21 new cases (of which 16 used to be suspected
cases and now are confirmed as SARS patients) and 2 deaths
- Inner Mongolia reported 6 new cases (of which 4 used to be
suspected cases and now are confirmed as SARS patients) and 4
patients recovered
- Jilin reported 3 new cases (all of whom used to be suspected
cases and now are confirmed as SARS patients)
- Anhui reported 1 new cases
- Henan reported 1 patient recovered
- Guangdong reported 12 new cases (of which 1 used to be
suspected case and now is confirmed as SARS patient), 8 patients
recovered and 3 deaths
- Shaanxi reported 1 new case
By 10:00 am of May 5, China had a total of 4,280 SARS cases
(including 851 medical workers), which included 1,433 patients who
had recovered and been discharged from hospital and 206 deaths.
Beijing reported 4 patients who had been falsely diagnosed with
SARS. Inner Mongolia took 1 case off the total list of the
confirmed SARS cases, which had been reported twice. Now 2,641
patients are receiving treatment in hospitals.
From 10:00 am of May 4 to 10:00 am of May 5, China also reported
177 new suspected cases, including 65 from Beijing, 14 from
Tianjin, 21 from Hebei, 12 from Shanxi, 15 from Inner Mongolia, 1
from Liaoning, 1 from Jilin, 1 from Shanghai, 1 from Jiangsu, 2
from Anhui, 1 from Henan, 40 from Guangdong, 2 from Sichuan and 1
from Shaanxi.
From 10:00 am of May 4 to 10:00 am of May 5, China reported 84
patients who had been falsely diagnosed with suspected cases, of
which, 34 from Beijing, 20 from Shanxi, 7 from Hebei, 4 from Inner
Mongolia, 4 from Shanghai, 4 from Guangdong, 3 from Tianjin, 3 from
Sichuan, 3 from Shaanxi, 1 from Henan and 1 from Guangxi. By 10:00
am of May 5, China had a total of 2,604 suspected cases.
(China.org.cn May 5, 2003)