April 4: Daily briefing on novel coronavirus cases in China

On April 3, 31 provincial-level regions and the Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps on the Chinese mainland reported 1,405 new cases of confirmed infections (39 imported cases, 14 in Sichuan province, 8 in Shanghai municipality, 8 in Guangdong province, 3 in Beijing municipality, 3 in Fujian province, 1 in Shandong province, 1 in Guangxi Zhuang autonomous region and 1 in Yunnan province, including 16 confirmed cases converting from asymptomatic cases, 14 in Sichuan province and 2 in Guangdong province; 1,366 indigenous cases, 836 in Jilin province including 574 in Changchun, 244 in Jilin city, 10 in Baicheng, 5 in Siping and 3 in Baishan, 425 in Shanghai municipality including 141 in Pudong New Area, 65 in Minhang district, 34 in Xuhui district, 31 in Baoshan district, 29 in Yangpu district, 28 in Jing’an district, 21 in Putuo district, 16 in Huangpu district, 15 in Changning district, 14 in Jiading district, 11 in Hongkou district, 8 in Songjiang district, 5 in Fengxian district, 3 in Jinshan district, 3 in Qingpu district and 1 in Chongming district, 16 in Fujian province including 13 in Quanzhou and 3 in Xiamen, 15 in Heilongjiang province including 12 in Harbin, 2 in Daqing and 1 in Jiamusi, 10 in Jiangsu province including 7 in Yancheng, 1 in Nanjing, 1 in Xuzhou and 1 in Suqian, 10 in Sichuan province including 9 in Chengdu and 1 in Leshan, 8 in Zhejiang province including 3 in Ningbo, 2 in Hangzhou, 1 in Wenzhou, 1 in Jiaxing and 1 in Huzhou, 7 in Qinghai province including 5 in Xining and 2 in Haidong, 6 in Shandong province including 3 in Qingdao, 2 in Jinan and 1 in Yantai, 6 in Hainan province including 2 in Haikou, 2 in Sanya and 2 in Qionghai, 5 in Guangdong province including 4 in Guangzhou and 1 in Zhuhai, 4 in Taiyuan, Shanxi province, 4 in Anhui province including 3 in Fuyang and 1 in Huainan, 4 in Jiangxi province including 2 in Nanchang, 1 in Fuzhou and 1 in Shangrao, 3 in Handan, Hebei province, 2 in Henan province including 1 in Zhengzhou and 1 in Huaxian county, 2 in Qianxinan Buyi and Miao autonomous prefecture, Guizhou province, 1 in Daxing district, Beijing municipality, 1 in Loudi, Hunan province and 1 in Xi’an, Shaanxi province, including 163 confirmed cases converting from asymptomatic cases, 71 in Shanghai municipality, 68 in Jilin province, 11 in Fujian province, 3 in Anhui province, 3 in Sichuan province, 2 in Zhejiang province, 2 in Shandong province, 2 in Guangdong province and 1 in Hainan province), no new cases of suspected infections, and no deaths. 1,848 patients were released from hospital after being cured. 24,376 people who had had close contact with infected patients were freed from medical observation. The number of serious cases decreased by 3.

As of 24:00 on April 3, 31 provincial-level regions and the Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps on the Chinese mainland had reported 17,643 cases of imported confirmed infections and no deaths. In all, 17,024 patients had been cured and discharged from hospital. There still remained 619 confirmed cases (no serious cases) and 17 suspected cases.

As of 24:00 on April 3, the National Health Commission had received reports of 156,143 confirmed cases and 4,638 deaths in 31 provincial-level regions and the Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps on the Chinese mainland, and in all 125,781 patients had been cured and discharged from hospital. There still remained 25,724 confirmed cases (including 54 cases in serious condition) and 17 suspected cases. 2,418,372 people had been identified as having had close contact with infected patients. 376,115 were still under medical observation.

On April 3, 31 provincial-level regions and the Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps on the Chinese mainland reported 11,862 new asymptomatic cases (91 imported cases; 11,771 indigenous cases, 8,581 in Shanghai municipality including 3,529 in Pudong New Area, 869 in Minhang district, 813 in Huangpu district, 464 in Xuhui district, 431 in Baoshan district, 410 in Jiading district, 344 in Yangpu district, 315 in Jing’an district, 304 in Putuo district, 258 in Songjiang district, 217 in Qingpu district, 178 in Hongkou district, 143 in Chongming district, 117 in Fengxian district, 99 in Jinshan district and 90 in Changning district, 2,742 in Jilin province including 2,346 in Changchun, 393 in Jilin city, 2 in Baicheng and 1 in Baishan, 108 in Hebei province including 54 in Handan, 53 in Baoding and 1 in Xingtai, 69 in Anhui province including 51 in Huainan, 13 in Fuyang, 3 in Wuhu, 1 in Hefei and 1 in Ma’anshan, 49 in Jiangsu province including 19 in Suqian, 11 in Suzhou, 10 in Yancheng, 6 in Nantong and 3 in Xuzhou, 39 in Liaoning province including 30 in Shenyang, 7 in Yingkou and 2 in Anshan, 39 in Jiangxi province including 33 in Nanchang, 3 in Fuzhou and 3 in Shangrao, 26 in Fujian province including 25 in Quanzhou and 1 in Fuzhou, 21 in Hainan province including 20 in Sanya and 1 in Haikou, 20 in Henan province including 13 in Zhoukou, 3 in Zhengzhou, 3 in Yongcheng and 1 in Xinyang, 13 in Shandong province including 6 in Linyi, 3 in Zaozhuang, 2 in Jinan and 2 in Heze, 10 in Zhejiang province including 6 in Jiaxing, 2 in Wenzhou, 1 in Hangzhou and 1 in Ningbo, 9 in Heilongjiang province including 5 in Jiamusi and 4 in Harbin, 9 in Hubei province including 4 in Suizhou, 2 in Huangshi, 2 in Jingzhou and 1 in Wuhan, 9 in Guangdong province including 4 in Dongguan, 2 in Guangzhou, 1 in Zhuhai, 1 in Foshan and 1 in Zhaoqing, 9 in Sichuan province including 4 in Chengdu, 3 in Leshan, 1 in Ziyang and 1 in Liangshan Yi autonomous prefecture, 6 in Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region including 4 in Bayingolin Mongol autonomous prefecture and 2 in Urumqi, 3 in Yunnan province including 2 in Dehong Dai and Jingpo autonomous prefecture and 1 in Kunming, 3 in Lanzhou, Gansu province, 2 in Nankai district, Tianjin municipality, 2 in Changsha, Hunan province, 1 in Taiyuan, Shanxi province and 1 in Nan’an district, Chongqing municipality). 2,008 asymptomatic cases were freed from medical observation (including 116 imported cases) and 179 asymptomatic cases became confirmed cases (including 16 imported cases). As of 24:00 on April 3, 83,364 asymptomatic cases were still under medical observation (including 1,064 imported cases).

As of 24:00 on April 3, 329,770 confirmed infections had been reported in the Hong Kong and Macao special administrative regions and Taiwan province: 305,375 in Hong Kong (8,172 had died and 50,964 had been cured and discharged from hospital), 82 in Macao (all had been cured and discharged from hospital) and 24,313 in Taiwan (853 had died and 13,742 had been cured and discharged from hospital).