The Press Office under the Ministry of Health published Wednesday
afternoon a press release on the latest SARS situation on the
Chinese mainland. On May 7, 14 provinces reported new SARS cases,
of which, 9 provinces reported both new cases and new suspected
cases and 5 provinces reported new suspected cases, and the
remaining 17 provinces reported no cases.
By
10:00 am May 7, 25 provinces have reported SARS cases. So far,
Hainan, Guizhou, Yunnan, Qinghai provinces, Xinjiang Uygur
Autonomous Region and Tibet Autonomous Region have not found any
cases. Of the provinces having reported suspected or confirmed SARS
cases, Heilongjiang Province still reports no diagnosed case;
Fujian Province has had no reported case for 29 days while Shandong
Province has reported no new case for 13 days. What's more, since
April 21, Liaoning, Zhejiang and Hunan provinces have reported no
new cases for 16 successive days and Jiangsu Province and Guangxi
Zhuang Autonomous Region have reported no new case for 5 successive
days.
From 10:00 am May 6 to 10:00 am May 7, China reported 159 new
cases, 27 patients recovered and 5 deaths. Of the 159 cases, 91
were suspected cases and now confirmed as SARS patients.
Of
these figures:
- Beijing reported 97 new cases (of which 57 used to be suspected
but now confirmed as SARS patients), 7 patients recovered and 3
deaths
- Tianjin reported 7 new cases (all of which used to be suspected
but now confirmed as SARS patients)
- Hebei reported 21 new cases (of which 12 used to be suspected
but now confirmed as SARS patients) and 2 patients recovered
- Shanxi reported 9 new cases (of which 7 used to be suspected
but now confirmed as SARS patients) and 10 patients recovered
- Inner Mongolia reported 7 new cases (of which 2 used to be
suspected but now confirmed as SARS patients), 3 patients recovered
and 2 deaths
- Jilin reported 2 new cases (all of which were suspected but now
confirmed as SARS patients)
- Henan reported 1 new case
- Guangdong reported 13 new cases (of which 2 were used to be
suspected but now are confirmed SARS patients) and 5 patients
recovered
- Chongqing reported 2 new cases (all of which were suspected but
now confirmed as SARS patients)
By 10:00 am May 7, China had a total of 4,560 SARS cases
(901 medical workers), which included 1,487 patients who had
recovered and been discharged from hospital and 219 deaths. Beijing
reported 8 patients who had been misdiagnosed with SARS (2 medical
workers; 3 remaining suspected cases). Now 2,854 patients are
receiving treatment in hospitals.
From 10:00 am May 6 to 10:00 am May 7, China also reported 204 new
suspected cases, including 97 from Beijing, 9 from Tianjin, 11 from
Hebei, 18 from Shanxi, 17 from Inner Mongolia, 2 from Jilin, 3 from
Shanghai, 2 from Jiangsu, 1 from Fujian, 1 from Henan, 38 from
Guangdong, 1 from Chongqing, 3 from Shaanxi and 1 from Gansu.
From 10:00 am May 6 to 10:00 am May 7, China reported 92
misdiagnosed suspected cases, of which, 49 from Beijing, 22 from
Guangdong, 6 from Shanxi, 5 from Inner Mongolia, 3 from Hebei, 2
from Shanghai, 2 from Anhui, and 1 each from Hubei, Hunan and
Sichuan. By 10:00 am May 7, China had a total of 2,666 suspected
cases.
(China.org.cn May 7, 2003)