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Feb 18: Daily briefing on novel coronavirus cases in China
Updated: Feb 18, 2021
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On Feb 17, 31 provincial-level regions and the Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps on the Chinese mainland reported 11 new cases of confirmed infections (all were imported cases, 4 in Shanghai municipality, 3 in Guangdong province, 2 in Sichuan province, 1 in Heilongjiang province and 1 in Hubei province), 1 new case of suspected infections (an imported case in Shanghai), and no deaths. 48 patients were released from hospital after being cured. 426 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 Feb 17, 31 provincial-level regions and the Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps on the Chinese mainland had reported 4,903 cases of imported confirmed infections and no deaths. In all, 4,686 patients had been cured and discharged from hospital. There still remained 217 confirmed cases (including 2 cases in serious condition) and 6 suspected cases.
As of 24:00 on Feb 17, the National Health Commission had received reports of 89,806 confirmed cases and 4,636 deaths in 31 provincial-level regions and the Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps on the Chinese mainland, and in all 84,650 patients had been cured and discharged from hospital. There still remained 520 confirmed cases (including 10 cases in serious condition) and 6 suspected cases. 974,949 people had been identified as having had close contact with infected patients. 8,347 were still under medical observation.
On Feb 17, 31 provincial-level regions and the Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps on the Chinese mainland reported 20 new asymptomatic cases (all were imported cases). 26 asymptomatic cases were freed from medical observation (including 14 imported cases) and no asymptomatic cases became confirmed cases. As of 24:00 on Feb 17, 357 asymptomatic cases were still under medical observation (including 288 imported cases).
As of 24:00 on Feb 17, 11,798 confirmed infections had been reported in the Hong Kong and Macao special administrative regions and Taiwan province: 10,812 in Hong Kong (197 had died and 10,270 had been cured and discharged from hospital), 48 in Macao (46 had been cured and discharged from hospital) and 938 in Taiwan (9 had died and 879 had been cured and discharged from hospital).
