The Press Office under the Ministry of Health published Tuesday
afternoon a press release on the latest SARS situation on the
Chinese mainland. On May 6, 14 provinces reported new SARS cases,
of which, 8 provinces reported both new cases and new suspected
cases, 2 provinces reported new cases and 4 provinces reported new
suspected cases, and the remaining 17 provinces reported no cases.
By
10:00 am May 6, 25 provinces have reported SARS cases. So far,
Hainan, Guizhou, Yunnan, Qinghai provinces and Tibet Autonomous
Region have not found any cases. Xinjiang ruled out its one
remaining suspected case. Of the provinces having reported
suspected or confirmed SARS cases, Heilongjiang still reports no
diagnosed case; Fujian Province has had no reported case for 28
days while Shandong Province has reported no new case for 12 days.
What's more, Liaoning, Zhejiang and Hunan provinces have reported
no new cases for 15 successive days since April 21.
From 10:00 am May 5 to 10:00 am May 6, China reported 138 new
cases, 27 patients recovered and 8 deaths. Of the 138 cases, 77
were suspected cases and now confirmed as SARS patients.
Of
these figures:
- Beijing reported 70 new cases (of which 37 used to be suspected
but now confirmed as SARS patients), 13 patients recovered and 4
deaths
- Tianjin reported 11 new cases (of which 6 used to be suspected
but now confirmed as SARS patients)
- Hebei reported 6 new cases (of which 2 used to be suspected but
now confirmed as SARS patients) and 2 patients recovered
- Shanxi reported 11 new cases (of which 5 used to be suspected
but now confirmed as SARS patients), 5 recovered and 3 deaths
- Inner Mongolia reported 21 new cases (of which 18 used to be
suspected but now confirmed as SARS patients)
- Jilin reported 2 new cases (all of which were suspected but now
confirmed as SARS patients)
- Shanghai reported 2 new cases (all of which were suspected but
now confirmed as SARS patients)
- Hubei reported 2 new cases (of which 1 was suspected but now
confirmed as a SARS patient)
- Guangdong reported 12 new cases (of which 4 were used to be
suspected but now are confirmed SARS patients), 6 patients
recovered and 1 death
- Guangxi reported 1 patient recovered
- Gansu reported 1 new case.
By
10:00 am May 6, China had a total of 4,409 SARS cases (883 medical
workers), which included 1,460 patients who had recovered and been
discharged from hospital and 214 deaths. Beijing reported 7
patients who had been misdiagnosed with SARS (1 medical worker; one
remaining a suspected case). Shanxi reported 2 patients who had
been misdiagnosed with SARS. Now 2,735 patients are receiving
treatment in hospitals.
From 10:00 am May 5 to 10:00 am May 6, China also reported 189 new
suspected cases, including 80 from Beijing, 5 from Tianjin, 10 from
Hebei, 19 from Shanxi, 9 from Inner Mongolia, 1 from Shanghai, 5
from Jiangsu, 1 from Zhejiang, 3 from Anhui, 2 from Hubei, 50 from
Guangdong, and 4 from Shaanxi.
From 10:00 am May 5 to 10:00 am May 6, China reported 70
misdiagnosed suspected cases, of which, 30 from Beijing, 18 from
Guangdong, 6 from Shanxi, 5 from Shaanxi, 4 from Hebei, 3 from
Inner Mongolia, 1 each from Tianjin, Henan, Hunan and Xinjiang. By
10:00 am May 6, China had a total of 2,646 suspected cases.
(China.org.cn May 6, 2003)