The Press Office under the Ministry of Health published Tuesday
afternoon a press release on the latest SARS situation on the
Chinese mainland. All provinces, autonomous regions and
municipalities on the mainland reported a total of 159 new SARS
cases with 12 patients recovered and 5 deaths.
Of
these figures:
- Guangdong reported 13 new cases, 1 patient recovered
- Beijing reported 106 new cases, 3 patients recovered and 3
deaths
- Shanxi reported 22 new cases, 7 patients recovered
- Inner Mongolia reported 3 new cases
- Henan 3 new cases
- Jilin 4 new cases
- Shaanxi 1 new case
- Tianjin 5 new cases, 2 deaths
- Shandong 1 new case
- Hubei 1 new case
- Fujian reported 1 patient recovered.
By 8 pm of April 21, China had a total of 2,158 SARS cases
(including 480 medical workers), which included 1,213 patients who
had recovered and been discharged from hospital and 97 deaths.
- Among these figures, a total of 1,330 cases (involving 332
medical workers), including 1,137 recovered and 48 deaths, were
reported in Guangdong
- A total of 588 cases (involving 99 medical workers), including
46 recovered and 28 deaths, were reported in Beijing
- 141 cases (involving 45 medical workers), including 13
recovered and 7 deaths, were reported in Shanxi
- 33 cases (involving 4 medical workers), including 6 deaths,
were reported in Inner Mongolia
- 14 cases including 8 recovered and 3 deaths were reported in
Guangxi
- 8 cases including 3 recovered and 2 deaths were reported in
Sichuan
- 6 cases including 5 recovered and 1 death were reported in
Hunan
- 3 cases including 1 recovered were reported in Fujian
- 5 cases including 2 deaths were reported in Tianjin
- Shanghai reported 2 cases, Ningxia 5, Henan 6, Jilin 7,
Zhejiang 3, Liaoning 1, Gansu 2, Shaanxi 2, Shandong 1, and Hubei
1.
In
addition, a total of 111 suspected cases were reported from across
the mainland Tuesday. By 8 pm of April 21, the total number of
suspected cases nationwide was 918, including 78 from Guangdong,
666 from Beijing, 73 from Shanxi, 1 from Guangxi, 58 from Inner
Mongolia, 2 from Hunan, 8 from Sichuan, 8 from Shanghai, 1 from
Henan, 2 from Jilin, 2 from Gansu, 7 from Hebei, 5 from Shaanxi, 2
from Tianjin, 1 from Xinjiang, 1 from Chongqing, 1 from Jiangsu and
1 from Guizhou.
(China.org.cn April 22, 2003)
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