The Press Office under the Ministry of Health published Monday
afternoon a press release in the latest SARS situation on the
Chinese mainland. On April 28, 8 provinces reported new SARS cases,
8 provinces reported new suspected cases and 14 provinces reported
no cases. By 10:00 am of April 28, 26 provinces reported SARS
cases.
From 10:00 am of April 27 to 10:00 am of April 28, China reported
203 new cases (including 36 medical workers), 7 patients recovered
and 8 deaths.
Of
these figures:
- Beijing reported 96 new cases and 3 deaths. Of the 96 cases, 37
used to be suspected cases and now are confirmed as SARS
patients
- Tianjin reported 21 new cases
- Hebei reported 3 new cases and 3 deaths (the 3 death cases were
reported yesterday and are put into today's data)
- Shanxi reported 29 new cases and 1 patients recovered
- Inner Mongolia reported 38 new cases and 1 death
- Henan reported 1 new case
- Hubei reported 1 new case
- Guangdong reported 13 new cases, and 6 recovered
- Gansu reported 1 new case and 1 death
By 10:00 am of April 28, China had a total of 3,106 SARS
cases (including 653 medical workers, Beijing removed 11
previously-confirmed cases from current statistics), which included
1,306 patients who had recovered and been discharged from hospital
and 139 deaths.
From 10:00 am of April 27 to 10:00 am of April 28, China also
reported 290 new suspected cases, including 149 from Beijing, 12
from Tianjin, 8 from Hebei, 29 from Shanxi, 24 from Inner Mongolia,
1 from Heilongjiang, 1 from Shanghai, 1 from Zhejiang, 1 from
Anhui, 3 from Henan, 2 from Hubei, 1 from Hunan, 51 from Guangdong,
1 from Chongqing, 4 from Sichuan, and 2 from Shaanxi. By 10:00 am
of April 28, China had a total of 2,106 suspected cases.
(China.org.cn April 28, 2003)