April 8: Daily briefing on novel coronavirus cases in China

On April 7, 31 provincial-level regions and the Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps on the Chinese mainland reported 1,576 new cases of confirmed infections (36 imported cases, 10 in Guangxi Zhuang autonomous region, 9 in Sichuan province, 5 in Guangdong province, 4 in Shanghai municipality, 2 in Fujian province, 2 in Yunnan province, 1 in Tianjin municipality, 1 in Heilongjiang province, 1 in Jiangxi province and 1 in Shandong province, including 10 confirmed cases converting from asymptomatic cases, 9 in Sichuan province and 1 in Shandong province; 1,540 indigenous cases, 824 in Shanghai municipality including 306 in Pudong New Area, 107 in Songjiang district, 96 in Minhang district, 72 in Jinshan district, 40 in Xuhui district, 32 in Fengxian district, 29 in Changning district, 29 in Yangpu district, 26 in Hongkou district, 23 in Jing’an district, 23 in Jiading district, 14 in Huangpu district, 11 in Putuo district, 10 in Baoshan district, 4 in Qingpu district and 2 in Chongming district, 617 in Jilin province including 474 in Changchun, 136 in Jilin city, 4 in Baicheng, 2 in Baishan and 1 in Siping, 20 in Fujian province including 19 in Quanzhou and 1 in Xiamen, 13 in Jiangsu province including 6 in Xuzhou, 3 in Nanjing, 2 in Zhenjiang, 1 in Suzhou and 1 in Yancheng, 11 in Xi’an, Shaanxi province, 9 in Beijing municipality including 5 in Chaoyang district, 3 in Shunyi district and 1 in Haidian district, 8 in Zhejiang province including 5 in Ningbo and 3 in Jiaxing, 7 in Guangdong province including 3 in Guangzhou, 3 in Foshan and 1 in Zhanjiang, 5 in Shanxi province including 4 in Taiyuan and 1 in Yuncheng, 5 in Shandong province including 2 in Weihai, 1 in Jinan, 1 in Qingdao and 1 in Jining, 5 in Sichuan province including 4 in Chengdu and 1 in Suining, 4 in Nanchang, Jiangxi province, 3 in Sanya, Hainan province, 2 in Inner Mongolia autonomous region including 1 in Tongliao and 1 in Hinggan League, 2 in Baise, Guangxi Zhuang autonomous region, 1 in Handan, Hebei province, 1 in Shenyang, Liaoning province, 1 in Harbin, Heilongjiang province, 1 in Shaoyang, Hunan province and 1 in Honghe Hani and Yi autonomous prefecture, Yunnan province, including 412 confirmed cases converting from asymptomatic cases, 323 in Shanghai municipality, 61 in Jilin province, 14 in Fujian province, 3 in Jiangsu province, 2 in Zhejiang province, 2 in Shandong province, 2 in Guangdong province, 2 in Guangxi Zhuang autonomous region, 1 in Beijing municipality, 1 in Shanxi province and 1 in Sichuan province), 4 new cases of suspected infections (all were imported cases in Shanghai municipality), and no deaths. 1,867 patients were released from hospital after being cured. 31,955 people who had had close contact with infected patients were freed from medical observation. The number of serious cases decreased by 8.

As of 24:00 on April 7, 31 provincial-level regions and the Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps on the Chinese mainland had reported 17,812 cases of imported confirmed infections and no deaths. In all, 17,333 patients had been cured and discharged from hospital. There still remained 479 confirmed cases (no serious cases) and 23 suspected cases.

As of 24:00 on April 7, the National Health Commission had received reports of 161,692 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 133,222 patients had been cured and discharged from hospital. There still remained 23,832 confirmed cases (including 77 cases in serious condition) and 23 suspected cases. 2,582,687 people had been identified as having had close contact with infected patients. 432,100 were still under medical observation.

On April 7, 31 provincial-level regions and the Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps on the Chinese mainland reported 22,648 new asymptomatic cases (87 imported cases; 22,561 indigenous cases, 20,398 in Shanghai municipality including 8,734 in Pudong New Area, 2,160 in Minhang district, 2,030 in Xuhui district, 1,368 in Huangpu district, 947 in Putuo district, 911 in Jiading district, 825 in Changning district, 647 in Songjiang district, 572 in Yangpu district, 568 in Hongkou district, 491 in Qingpu district, 407 in Baoshan district, 360 in Jing’an district, 260 in Chongming district, 62 in Fengxian district and 56 in Jinshan district, 1,649 in Jilin province including 1,553 in Changchun, 92 in Jilin city, 2 in Baicheng, 1 in Siping and 1 in Baishan, 162 in Hebei province including 90 in Baoding, 68 in Handan, 3 in Shijiazhuang and 1 in Xingtai, 69 in Anhui province including 31 in Fuyang, 20 in Lu’an, 16 in Huainan, 1 in Suzhou and 1 in Xuancheng, 65 in Jiangsu province including 28 in Suqian, 16 in Suzhou, 12 in Nantong, 3 in Xuzhou, 2 in Nanjing, 2 in Yancheng and 2 in Taizhou, 46 in Shandong province including 24 in Jinan, 8 in Weihai, 5 in Linyi, 3 in Zaozhuang, 3 in Weifang, 2 in Jining and 1 in Yantai, 36 in Liaoning province including 19 in Shenyang, 13 in Jinzhou, 3 in Anshan and 1 in Huludao, 36 in Zhejiang province including 26 in Jiaxing, 4 in Hangzhou, 4 in Wenzhou, 1 in Ningbo and 1 in Lishui, 32 in Jiangxi province including 30 in Nanchang and 2 in Shangrao, 19 in Henan province including 16 in Zhoukou and 3 in Yongcheng, 11 in Guangxi Zhuang autonomous region including 9 in Chongzuo, 1 in Fangchenggang and 1 in Baise, 8 in Yunnan province including 4 in Dehong Dai and Jingpo autonomous prefecture, 2 in Zhaotong and 2 in Honghe Hani and Yi autonomous prefecture, 5 in Heilongjiang province including 3 in Jiamusi, 1 in Harbin and 1 in Mudanjiang, 5 in Fujian province including 4 in Quanzhou and 1 in Fuzhou, 4 in Taiyuan, Shanxi province, 4 in Guangdong province including 2 in Foshan, 1 in Guangzhou and 1 in Zhanjiang, 3 in Wuhan, Hubei province, 3 in Xi’an, Shaanxi province, 2 in Sanya, Hainan province, 2 in Xining, Qinghai province, 1 in Haidian district, Beijing municipality and 1 in Urumqi, Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region). 2,481 asymptomatic cases were freed from medical observation (including 105 imported cases) and 422 asymptomatic cases became confirmed cases (including 10 imported cases). As of 24:00 on April 7, 152,693 asymptomatic cases were still under medical observation (including 965 imported cases).

As of 24:00 on April 7, 333,631 confirmed infections had been reported in the Hong Kong and Macao special administrative regions and Taiwan province: 307,793 in Hong Kong (8,557 had died and 54,939 had been cured and discharged from hospital), 82 in Macao (all had been cured and discharged from hospital) and 25,756 in Taiwan (853 had died and 13,742 had been cured and discharged from hospital).