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May 10: Daily briefing on novel coronavirus cases in China
Updated: May 10, 2021
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On May 8, 31 provincial-level regions and the Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps on the Chinese mainland reported 12 new cases of confirmed infections (all were imported cases, 6 in Shanghai municipality, 5 in Guangdong province and 1 in Ningxia Hui autonomous region), no new cases of suspected infections, and no deaths. 12 patients were released from hospital after being cured. 832 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 May 8, 31 provincial-level regions and the Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps on the Chinese mainland had reported 5,760 cases of imported confirmed infections and no deaths. In all, 5,485 patients had been cured and discharged from hospital. There still remained 275 confirmed cases (including 1 case in serious condition) and 1 suspected case.
As of 24:00 on May 8, the National Health Commission had received reports of 90,758 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 85,822 patients had been cured and discharged from hospital. There still remained 300 confirmed cases (including 1 case in serious condition) and 1 suspected case. 1,010,948 people had been identified as having had close contact with infected patients. 5,214 were still under medical observation.
On May 8, 31 provincial-level regions and the Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps on the Chinese mainland reported 10 new asymptomatic cases (all were imported cases). 14 asymptomatic cases were freed from medical observation (all were imported cases) and 1 (imported case) became a confirmed case. As of 24:00 on May 8, 308 asymptomatic cases were still under medical observation (including 301 imported cases).
As of 24:00 on May 8, 13,038 confirmed infections had been reported in the Hong Kong and Macao special administrative regions and Taiwan province: 11,806 in Hong Kong (210 had died and 11,486 had been cured and discharged from hospital), 49 in Macao (all had been cured and discharged from hospital) and 1,183 in Taiwan (12 had died and 1,082 had been cured and discharged from hospital).
