April 1: Daily briefing on novel coronavirus cases in China

On March 31, 31 provincial-level regions and the Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps on the Chinese mainland reported 16 new cases of confirmed infections (10 imported cases, 3 in Shanghai municipality, 3 in Guangdong province, 2 in Jiangsu province, 1 in Inner Mongolia autonomous region and 1 in Shandong province; 6 indigenous cases in Yunnan province), no new cases of suspected infections, and no deaths. 9 patients were released from hospital after being cured. 99 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 March 31, 31 provincial-level regions and the Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps on the Chinese mainland had reported 5,300 cases of imported confirmed infections and no deaths. In all, 5,128 patients had been cured and discharged from hospital. There still remained 172 confirmed cases (including 2 cases in serious condition) and 3 suspected cases.

As of 24:00 on March 31, the National Health Commission had received reports of 90,217 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 85,394 patients had been cured and discharged from hospital. There still remained 187 confirmed cases (including 2 cases in serious condition) and 3 suspected cases. 989,820 people had been identified as having had close contact with infected patients. 5,042 were still under medical observation.

On March 31, 31 provincial-level regions and the Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps on the Chinese mainland reported 42 new asymptomatic cases (19 imported cases, and 23 indigenous cases in Yunnan). 6 asymptomatic cases were freed from medical observation (all were imported cases) and 3 (imported cases) became confirmed cases. As of 24:00 on March 31, 288 asymptomatic cases were still under medical observation (including 262 imported cases).

As of 24:00 on March 31, 12,545 confirmed infections had been reported in the Hong Kong and Macao special administrative regions and Taiwan province: 11,467 in Hong Kong (205 had died and 11,095 had been cured and discharged from hospital), 48 in Macao (all had been cured and discharged from hospital) and 1,030 in Taiwan (10 had died and 981 had been cured and discharged from hospital).