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Oct 26: Daily briefing on novel coronavirus cases in China
Updated: Oct 26, 2020
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On Oct 25, 31 provincial-level regions and the Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps on the Chinese mainland reported 20 new cases of confirmed infections (all were imported cases, 11 in Shanghai municipality, 2 in Inner Mongolia autonomous region, 2 in Shaanxi province, 1 in Hebei province, 1 in Shanxi province, 1 in Fujian province, 1 in Guangdong province and 1 in Sichuan province), 1 new case of suspected infections (an imported case in Shanghai), and no deaths. 20 patients were released from hospital after being cured. 944 people who had had close contact with infected patients were freed from medical observation. Serious cases increased by 1.
As of 24:00 on Oct 25, 31 provincial-level regions and the Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps on the Chinese mainland had reported 3,248 cases of imported confirmed infections and no deaths. In all, 2,993 patients had been cured and discharged from hospital. There still remained 255 confirmed cases (including 3 cases in serious condition) and 6 suspected cases.
As of 24:00 on Oct 25, the National Health Commission had received reports of 85,810 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 80,911 patients had been cured and discharged from hospital. There still remained 265 confirmed cases (including 4 cases in serious condition) and 6 suspected cases. 851,586 people had been identified as having had close contact with infected patients. 8,317 were still under medical observation.
On Oct 25, 31 provincial-level regions and the Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps on the Chinese mainland reported 161 new asymptomatic cases (including 24 imported cases). 25 asymptomatic cases were freed from medical observation (all were imported cases) and 2 (imported cases) became confirmed cases. As of 24:00 on Oct 25, 539 asymptomatic cases were still under medical observation (including 400 imported cases).
As of 24:00 on Oct 25, 5,891 confirmed infections had been reported in the Hong Kong and Macao special administrative regions and Taiwan province: 5,295 in Hong Kong (105 had died and 5,047 had been cured and discharged from hospital), 46 in Macao (all had been cured and discharged from hospital) and 550 in Taiwan (7 had died and 502 had been cured and discharged from hospital).
