The Press Office under the Ministry of Health published Friday
afternoon a press release on the latest SARS situation on the
Chinese mainland. On May 9, 14 provinces reported new SARS cases,
of which, 8 provinces reported both new cases and new suspected
cases, 1 province reported new cases and 5 provinces reported new
suspected cases, and the remaining 17 provinces reported no cases.
By
10:00 am May 9, 25 provinces have reported SARS cases. So far,
Hainan, Guizhou, Yunnan, Qinghai provinces, Tibet and Xinjiang
Uygur autonomous regions have not found any cases. Of the provinces
having reported suspected or confirmed SARS cases, Heilongjiang
Province still reports no diagnosed case; Shanghai, Anhui, Hubei,
Hunan, Gansu and Ningxia provinces reported less than 10 diagnosed
cases respectively; Chongqing, Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Fujian, Liaoning,
Jiangxi and Shandong provinces reported less than 5 diagnosed cases
respectively. Fujian Province has had no reported case for 31 days;
Hunan Province has reported no new case for 18 days; Shandong
Province has reported no new case for 15 days; Guangxi Zhuang
Autonomous Region has reported no new case for 7 days; Ningxia Hui
Autonomous Region has reported no new case for 6 days; Jiangxi
Province has reported no new case for 5 days.
From 10:00 am May 8 to 10:00 am May 9, China reported 118 new
cases, 53 patients recovered and 6 deaths. Of the 118 cases, 62
were suspected cases and now confirmed as SARS patients.
Of
these figures:
- Beijing reported 48 new cases (of which 28 used to be suspected
but now confirmed as SARS patients), 16 patients recovered and 2
deaths
- Tianjin reported 9 new cases (of which 5 used to be suspected
but now confirmed as SARS patients) and 1 death
- Hebei reported 9 new cases (of which 4 used to be suspected but
now confirmed as SARS patients), 2 patients recovered and 2
deaths
- Shanxi reported 11 new cases (of which 6 used to be suspected
but now confirmed as SARS patients), and 15 recovered
- Inner Mongolia reported 20 new cases (of which 10 used to be
suspected but now confirmed as SARS patients), 3 recovered and 1
death
- Fujian reported 1 patient recovered
- Henan reported 1 patient recovered
- Guangdong reported 17 new cases (of which 7 were used to be
suspected but now are confirmed as SARS patients) and 15 patients
recovered
- Sichuan reported 2 new cases (all of which were used to be
suspected but now are confirmed as SARS patients)
- Shaanxi reported 1 new case
- Gansu reported 1 new case.
By
10:00 am May 9, China had a total of 4,805 SARS cases (925 medical
workers), which included 1,582 patients who had recovered and been
discharged from hospital and 230 deaths. Now 2,993 patients are
receiving treatment in hospitals.
From 10:00 am May 8 to 10:00 am May 9, China also reported 144 new
suspected cases, including 54 from Beijing, 11 from Tianjin, 6 from
Hebei, 14 from Shanxi, 10 from Inner Mongolia, 4 from Shanghai, 1
from Jiangsu, 2 from Anhui, 1 each from Shandong and Hubei, 38 from
Guangdong, and 1 each from Sichuan and Shaanxi.
From 10:00 am May 8 to 10:00 am May 9, China reported 164
misdiagnosed suspected cases, of which, 87 from Beijing, 36 from
Guangdong, 22 from Shanxi, 5 from Inner Mongolia, 4 from Shanghai,
3 from Hebei, 2 from Ningxia, and 1 each from Tianjin, Zhejiang,
Shandong, Guangxi and Shaanxi. By 10:00 am May 9, China had a total
of 2,566 suspected cases.
(China.org.cn May 9, 2003)