Sept 10: Daily briefing on novel coronavirus cases in China

On Sept 9, 31 provincial-level regions and the Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps on the Chinese mainland reported 17 new cases of confirmed infections (all were imported cases, 5 in Guangdong province, 4 in Shanghai municipality, 4 in Yunnan province, 1 in Jiangsu province, 1 in Fujian province, 1 in Shandong province and 1 in Guangxi Zhuang autonomous region, including 1 confirmed case converting from an asymptomatic case in Fujian), 1 new case of suspected infections (an imported case in Shanghai), and no deaths. 47 patients were released from hospital after being cured. 503 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 Sept 9, 31 provincial-level regions and the Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps on the Chinese mainland had reported 8,568 cases of imported confirmed infections and no deaths. In all, 7,956 patients had been cured and discharged from hospital. There still remained 612 confirmed cases (including 8 cases in serious condition) and 2 suspected cases.

As of 24:00 on Sept 9, the National Health Commission had received reports of 95,128 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 89,736 patients had been cured and discharged from hospital. There still remained 756 confirmed cases (including 8 cases in serious condition) and 2 suspected cases. 1,168,375 people had been identified as having had close contact with infected patients. 12,257 were still under medical observation.

On Sept 9, 31 provincial-level regions and the Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps on the Chinese mainland reported 21 new asymptomatic cases (all were imported cases). 22 asymptomatic cases were freed from medical observation (including 16 imported cases) and 1 (imported case) became a confirmed case. As of 24:00 on Sept 9, 374 asymptomatic cases were still under medical observation (including 352 imported cases).

As of 24:00 on Sept 9, 28,258 confirmed infections had been reported in the Hong Kong and Macao special administrative regions and Taiwan province: 12,133 in Hong Kong (212 had died and 11,834 had been cured and discharged from hospital), 63 in Macao (62 had been cured and discharged from hospital) and 16,062 in Taiwan (838 had died and 13,742 had been cured and discharged from hospital).