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Oct 10: Daily briefing on novel coronavirus cases in China
Updated: Oct 10, 2020
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On Oct 9, 31 provincial-level regions and the Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps on the Chinese mainland reported 15 new cases of confirmed infections (all were imported cases, 5 in Sichuan province, 3 in Shaanxi province, 2 in Tianjin municipality, 2 in Liaoning province, 2 in Shanghai municipality and 1 in Guangdong province), no new cases of suspected infections, and no deaths. 15 patients were released from hospital after being cured. 857 people who had had close contact with infected patients were freed from medical observation. The number of serious cases remained unchanged.
As of 24:00 on Oct 9, 31 provincial-level regions and the Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps on the Chinese mainland had reported 2,987 cases of imported confirmed infections and no deaths. In all, 2,781 patients had been cured and discharged from hospital. There still remained 206 confirmed cases (including 1 case in serious condition) and 4 suspected cases.
As of 24:00 on Oct 9, the National Health Commission had received reports of 85,536 confirmed cases and 4,634 deaths in 31 provincial-level regions and the Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps on the Chinese mainland, and in all 80,696 patients had been cured and discharged from hospital. There still remained 206 confirmed cases (including 1 case in serious condition) and 4 suspected cases. 839,771 people had been identified as having had close contact with infected patients. 8,164 were still under medical observation.
On Oct 9, 31 provincial-level regions and the Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps on the Chinese mainland reported 39 new asymptomatic cases (all were imported cases). 16 asymptomatic cases were freed from medical observation (all were imported cases) and no asymptomatic cases became confirmed cases. As of 24:00 on Oct 9, 380 asymptomatic cases were still under medical observation (including 378 imported cases).
As of 24:00 on Oct 9, 5,742 confirmed infections had been reported in the Hong Kong and Macao special administrative regions and Taiwan province: 5,169 in Hong Kong (105 had died and 4,906 had been cured and discharged from hospital), 46 in Macao (all had been cured and discharged from hospital) and 527 in Taiwan (7 had died and 488 had been cured and discharged from hospital).
