April 9: Daily briefing on novel coronavirus cases in China

On April 8, 31 provincial-level regions and the Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps on the Chinese mainland reported 1,350 new cases of confirmed infections (16 imported cases, 4 in Guangdong province, 3 in Guangxi Zhuang autonomous region, 2 in Beijing municipality, 2 in Shanghai municipality, 2 in Zhejiang province, 2 in Fujian province and 1 in Sichuan province, including 6 confirmed cases converting from asymptomatic cases, 3 in Guangdong province, 2 in Zhejiang province and 1 in Sichuan province; 1,334 indigenous cases, 1,015 in Shanghai municipality including 348 in Pudong New Area, 116 in Jiading district, 114 in Xuhui district, 107 in Songjiang district, 61 in Minhang district, 45 in Jinshan district, 42 in Huangpu district, 39 in Jing’an district, 30 in Baoshan district, 24 in Qingpu district, 22 in Changning district, 21 in Putuo district, 18 in Hongkou district, 13 in Fengxian district, 12 in Yangpu district and 3 in Chongming district, 248 in Jilin province including 150 in Changchun, 87 in Jilin city, 10 in Baicheng and 1 in Siping, 13 in Zhejiang province including 9 in Jiaxing, 2 in Ningbo, 1 in Shaoxing and 1 in Lishui, 8 in Shaanxi province including 7 in Xi’an and 1 in Shangluo, 6 in Beijing municipality including 3 in Fengtai district, 2 in Chaoyang district and 1 in Shunyi district, 6 in Shanxi province including 4 in Taiyuan and 2 in Yuncheng, 6 in Anhui province including 5 in Lu’an and 1 in Fuyang, 5 in Heilongjiang province including 4 in Mudanjiang and 1 in Harbin, 5 in Jiangsu province including 2 in Wuxi, 2 in Xuzhou and 1 in Nanjing, 5 in Guangdong province including 2 in Guangzhou, 1 in Shenzhen, 1 in Foshan and 1 in Zhanjiang, 4 in Shandong province including 3 in Jinan and 1 in Weihai, 4 in Hainan province including 3 in Sanya and 1 in Lingshui Li autonomous county, 3 in Quanzhou, Fujian province, 2 in Handan, Hebei province, 2 in Nanchang, Jiangxi province, 1 in Zhengzhou, Henan province, and 1 in Jiangbei district, Chongqing municipality, including 491 confirmed cases converting from asymptomatic cases, 420 in Shanghai municipality, 52 in Jilin province, 10 in Zhejiang province, 2 in Fujian province, 2 in Hainan province, 2 in Shaanxi province, 1 in Anhui province, 1 in Shandong province and 1 in Guangdong province), 6 new cases of suspected infections (all were imported cases in Shanghai municipality), and no deaths. 1,996 patients were released from hospital after being cured. 23,342 people who had had close contact with infected patients were freed from medical observation. The number of serious cases increased by 2.

As of 24:00 on April 8, 31 provincial-level regions and the Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps on the Chinese mainland had reported 17,828 cases of imported confirmed infections and no deaths. In all, 17,386 patients had been cured and discharged from hospital. There still remained 442 confirmed cases (no serious cases) and 29 suspected cases.

As of 24:00 on April 8, the National Health Commission had received reports of 163,042 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 135,218 patients had been cured and discharged from hospital. There still remained 23,186 confirmed cases (including 79 cases in serious condition) and 29 suspected cases. 2,620,524 people had been identified as having had close contact with infected patients. 445,797 were still under medical observation.

On April 8, 31 provincial-level regions and the Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps on the Chinese mainland reported 23,815 new asymptomatic cases (78 imported cases; 23,737 indigenous cases, 22,609 in Shanghai municipality including 6,949 in Pudong New Area, 2,791 in Minhang district, 2,758 in Baoshan district, 2,558 in Huangpu district, 1,516 in Xuhui district, 1,391 in Jiading district, 1,074 in Putuo district, 689 in Yangpu district, 666 in Songjiang district, 641 in Jing’an district, 596 in Changning district, 362 in Hongkou district, 318 in Qingpu district, 169 in Chongming district, 86 in Fengxian district and 45 in Jinshan district, 706 in Jilin province including 648 in Changchun, 56 in Jilin city, 1 in Baishan and 1 in Baicheng, 107 in Hebei province including 65 in Handan and 42 in Baoding, 73 in Jiangsu province including 35 in Suzhou, 15 in Nantong, 14 in Suqian, 3 in Xuzhou, 3 in Lianyungang, 2 in Yancheng and 1 in Zhenjiang, 65 in Anhui province including 34 in Lu’an, 25 in Fuyang, 5 in Huainan and 1 in Hefei, 39 in Shandong province including 23 in Jinan, 6 in Linyi, 3 in Weifang, 3 in Weihai, 2 in Heze, 1 in Qingdao and 1 in Dongying, 29 in Nanchang, Jiangxi province, 26 in Zhejiang province including 15 in Jiaxing and 11 in Hangzhou, 25 in Liaoning province including 13 in Shenyang, 5 in Anshan, 4 in Jinzhou and 3 in Yingkou, 17 in Henan province including 8 in Zhoukou, 7 in Yongcheng and 2 in Zhengzhou, 9 in Quanzhou, Fujian province, 6 in Heilongjiang province including 2 in Jiamusi, 1 in Harbin, 1 in Daqing, 1 in Mudanjiang and 1 in Heihe, 5 in Shanxi province including 4 in Taiyuan and 1 in Yuncheng, 5 in Guangdong province including 4 in Foshan and 1 in Guangzhou, 4 in Guangxi Zhuang autonomous region including 2 in Fangchenggang and 2 Chongzuo, 3 in Yunnan province including 2 in Honghe Hani and Yi autonomous prefecture and 1 in Dehong Dai and Jingpo autonomous prefecture, 2 in Wuhan, Hubei province, 2 in Sichuan province including 1 in Chengdu and 1 in Leshan, 2 in Urumqi, Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region, 1 in Nankai district, Tianjin municipality, 1 in Hinggan League, Inner Mongolia autonomous region and 1 in Sanya, Hainan province). 1,996 asymptomatic cases were freed from medical observation (including 105 imported cases) and 497 asymptomatic cases became confirmed cases (including 6 imported cases). As of 24:00 on April 8, 174,015 asymptomatic cases were still under medical observation (including 932 imported cases).

As of 24:00 on April 8, 334,395 confirmed infections had been reported in the Hong Kong and Macao special administrative regions and Taiwan province: 308,050 in Hong Kong (8,643 had died and 56,449 had been cured and discharged from hospital), 82 in Macao (all had been cured and discharged from hospital) and 26,263 in Taiwan (853 had died and 13,742 had been cured and discharged from hospital).