April 5: Daily briefing on novel coronavirus cases in China

On April 4, 31 provincial-level regions and the Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps on the Chinese mainland reported 1,235 new cases of confirmed infections (62 imported cases, 34 in Sichuan province, 6 in Shandong province, 6 in Guangdong province, 5 in Guangxi Zhuang autonomous region, 3 in Shanghai municipality, 3 in Henan province, 2 in Beijing municipality, 2 in Fujian province and 1 in Tianjin municipality, including 21 confirmed cases converting from asymptomatic cases, 14 in Sichuan province, 3 in Henan province, 1 in Tianjin municipality, 1 in Fujian province, 1 in Guangdong province and 1 in Guangxi Zhuang autonomous region; 1,173 indigenous cases, 792 in Jilin province including 604 in Changchun, 175 in Jilin city, 10 in Baicheng, 2 in Baishan and 1 in Siping, 268 in Shanghai municipality including 204 in Pudong New Area, 12 in Minhang district, 10 in Huangpu district, 10 in Yangpu district, 7 in Xuhui district, 6 in Songjiang district, 4 in Putuo district, 4 in Hongkou district, 4 in Jiading district, 2 in Baoshan district, 2 in Fengxian district, 1 in Changning district, 1 in Jing'an district and 1 in Qingpu district, 17 in Heilongjiang province including 13 in Harbin and 4 in Mudanjiang, 17 in Zhejiang province including 9 in Jiaxing, 4 in Huzhou, 3 in Ningbo and 1 in Wenzhou, 14 in Shandong province including 11 in Jinan and 3 in Qingdao, 12 in Sichuan province including 10 in Chengdu and 2 in Leshan, 8 in Beijing municipality including 6 in Chaoyang district, 1 in Fengtai district and 1 in Shunyi district, 7 in Jiangsu province including 3 in Xuzhou, 1 in Huai'an, 1 in Yancheng, 1 in Zhenjiang and 1 in Suqian, 7 in Fujian province including 6 in Quanzhou and 1 in Xiamen, 6 in Handan, Hebei province, 4 in Shanxi province including 1 in Taiyuan, 1 in Jinzhong, 1 in Yuncheng and 1 in Linfen, 3 in Anshan, Liaoning province, 3 in Guangdong province including 2 in Guangzhou and 1 in Maoming, 2 in Xiqing district, Tianjin municipality, 2 in Nanchang, Jiangxi province, 2 in Baise, Guangxi Zhuang autonomous region, 2 in Yunnan province including 1 in Zhaotong and 1 in Honghe Hani and Yi autonomous prefecture, 2 in Xining, Qinghai province, 1 in Tongliao, Inner Mongolia autonomous region, 1 in Lu'an, Anhui province, 1 in Danzhou, Hainan province, 1 in Qianxinan Bouyei and Miao autonomous prefecture, Guizhou province, and 1 in Urumqi, Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region, including 100 confirmed cases converting from asymptomatic cases, 74 in Jilin province, 6 in Zhejiang province, 5 in Sichuan province, 4 in Shanghai municipality, 3 in Hebei province, 3 in Fujian province, 3 in Shandong province, 1 in Tianjin municipality and 1 in Jiangsu province), no new cases of suspected infections, and no deaths. 1,899 patients were released from hospital after being cured. 26,683 people who had had close contact with infected patients were freed from medical observation. The number of serious cases increased by 9.

As of 24:00 on April 4, 31 provincial-level regions and the Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps on the Chinese mainland had reported 17,705 cases of imported confirmed infections and no deaths. In all, 17,114 patients had been cured and discharged from hospital. There still remained 591 confirmed cases (no serious cases) and 17 suspected cases.

As of 24:00 on April 4, the National Health Commission had received reports of 157,378 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 127,680 patients had been cured and discharged from hospital. There still remained 25,060 confirmed cases (including 63 cases in serious condition) and 17 suspected cases. 2,456,979 people had been identified as having had close contact with infected patients. 387,696 were still under medical observation.

On April 4, 31 provincial-level regions and the Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps on the Chinese mainland reported 15,355 new asymptomatic cases (116 imported cases; 15,239 indigenous cases, 13,086 in Shanghai municipality including 6,788 in Pudong New Area, 1,370 in Minhang district, 1,223 in Xuhui district, 973 in Huangpu district, 604 in Hongkou district, 563 in Songjiang district, 319 in Qingpu district, 267 in Baoshan district, 255 in Putuo district, 243 in Jiading district, 215 in Yangpu district, 68 in Fengxian district, 59 in Jing'an district, 52 in Jinshan district, 49 in Chongming district and 38 in Changning district, 1,680 in Jilin province including 1,336 in Changchun, 339 in Jilin city, 4 in Baicheng and 1 in Baishan, 106 in Hebei province including 65 in Handan, 39 in Baoding, 1 in Shijiazhuang and 1 in Cangzhou, 70 in Jiangsu province including 27 in Suzhou, 27 in Suqian, 9 in Nantong, 5 in Xuzhou and 2 in Zhenjiang, 54 in Liaoning province including 46 in Shenyang, 5 in Anshan and 3 in Yingkou, 48 in Anhui province including 37 in Huainan, 8 in Fuyang, 2 in Wuhu and 1 in Xuancheng, 39 in Jiangxi province including 31 in Nanchang, 6 in Shangrao and 2 in Fuzhou, 31 in Henan province including 22 in Zhoukou, 8 in Yongcheng and 1 in Zhengzhou, 25 in Zhejiang province including 17 in Jiaxing, 4 in Hangzhou, 3 in Wenzhou and 1 in Lishui, 17 in Shandong province including 7 in Linyi, 4 in Weifang, 3 in Zaozhuang, 1 in Jinan, 1 in Weihai and 1 in Heze, 16 in Hubei province including 12 in Suizhou, 3 in Wuhan and 1 in Ezhou, 14 in Yunnan province including 11 in Dehong Dai and Jingpo autonomous prefecture, 2 in Honghe Hani and Yi autonomous prefecture and 1 in Qujing, 10 in Heilongjiang province including 5 in Jiamusi, 3 in Mudanjiang, 1 in Harbin and 1 in Heihe, 9 in Fujian province including 7 in Quanzhou, 1 in Fuzhou and 1 in Ningde, 9 in Sichuan province including 4 in Chengdu, 4 in Leshan and 1 in Suining, 8 in Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region including 6 in Urumqi, 1 in Changji Hui autonomous prefecture and 1 in Bayingolin Mongol autonomous prefecture, 4 in Xiqing district, Tianjin municipality, 4 in Lanzhou, Gansu province, 2 in Taiyuan, Shanxi province, 1 in Chaoyang district, Beijing municipality, 1 in Tongliao, Inner Mongolia autonomous region, 1 in Hengyang, Hunan province, 1 in Dongguan, Guangdong province, 1 in Haikou, Hainan province, 1 in Yuzhong district, Chongqing municipality, and 1 in Anshun, Guizhou province). 1,795 asymptomatic cases were freed from medical observation (including 133 imported cases) and 121 asymptomatic cases became confirmed cases (including 21 imported cases). As of 24:00 on April 4, 96,803 asymptomatic cases were still under medical observation (including 1,026 imported cases).

As of 24:00 on April 4, 330,489 confirmed infections had been reported in the Hong Kong and Macao special administrative regions and Taiwan province: 305,819 in Hong Kong (8,262 had died and 51,346 had been cured and discharged from hospital), 82 in Macao (all had been cured and discharged from hospital) and 24,588 in Taiwan (853 had died and 13,742 had been cured and discharged from hospital).