The Press Office under the Ministry of Health published Thursday
afternoon a press release on the latest SARS situation on the
Chinese mainland. On May 8, 15 provinces reported new SARS cases,
of which, 10 provinces reported both new cases and new suspected
cases, 1 province reported new cases and 4 provinces reported new
suspected cases, and the remaining 16 provinces reported no cases.
By
10:00 am May 8, 25 provinces have reported SARS cases. So far,
Hainan, Guizhou, Yunnan, Qinghai provinces, Tibet Autonomous Region
and Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region have not found any cases. Of
the provinces having reported suspected or confirmed SARS cases,
Heilongjiang still reports no diagnosed case; Fujian Province has
had no reported case for 30 days while Shandong Province has
reported no new case for 14 days. Since April 21, Hunan Province
has reported no new case for 17 successive days, while Guangxi
Zhuang Autonomous Region has reported no new case for 6 days and
Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region has reported no new case for 5
days.
From 10:00 am May 7 to 10:00 am May 8, China reported 146 new
cases, 43 patients recovered and 5 deaths. Of the 146 cases, 99
were suspected cases and now confirmed as SARS patients.
Of
these figures:
- Beijing reported 94 new cases (of which 57 used to be suspected
but now confirmed as SARS patients), 11 patients recovered and 2
deaths
- Tianjin reported 5 new cases (all of which were suspected but
now confirmed as SARS patients), 1 patient recovered
- Hebei reported 13 new cases (of which 7 used to be suspected
but now confirmed as SARS patients) and 5 patients recovered
- Shanxi reported 13 new cases (of which 12 used to be suspected
but now confirmed as SARS patients), 3 recovered
- Inner Mongolia reported 9 new cases (of which 7 used to be
suspected but now confirmed as SARS patients)
- Liaoning reported 1 new case (which was suspected but now
confirmed as a SARS patient)
- Jilin reported 1 new case (which was suspected but now
confirmed as a SARS patient) and 1 death
- Shanghai reported 1 death
- Jiangsu reported 1 new case (which was suspected but now
confirmed as a SARS patient)
- Zhejiang reported 1 new case (which was suspected but now
confirmed as a SARS patient)
- Henan reported 1 patient recovered
- Guangdong reported 7 new cases (of which 6 were suspected but
now are confirmed as SARS patients), 17 patients recovered and 1
death
- Sichuan reported 1 patient recovered
- Shaanxi reported 1 new case (which was suspected but now
confirmed as a SARS patient), and 2 recovered
- Ningxia reported 2 patients recovered.
By 10:00 am May 8, China had a total of 4,698 SARS cases
(917 medical workers), which included 1,529 patients who had
recovered and been discharged from hospital and 224 deaths.
Currently, a total of 2,945 patients are receiving medical
treatment in hospital.
From 10:00 am May 7 to 10:00 am May 8, China also reported 207 new
suspected cases, including 80 from Beijing, 8 from Tianjin, 11 from
Hebei, 29 from Shanxi, 13 from Inner Mongolia, 1 from Jilin, 2 from
Shanghai, 5 from Jiangsu, 1 each from Zhejiang, Jiangxi and Hubei,
53 from Guangdong, and 1 each from Sichuan and Shaanxi.
From 10:00 am May 7 to 10:00 am May 8, China reported 126
misdiagnosed suspected cases, of which, 51 from Beijing, 31 from
Guangdong, 19 from Shanxi, 13 from Shaanxi, 5 from Inner Mongolia,
2 each from Shanghai and Sichuan, 1 each from Tianjin, Henan and
Hubei. By 10:00 am May 8, China had a total of 2,648 suspected
cases.
(China.org.cn May 8, 2003)