The Press Office under the Ministry of Health published Sunday
afternoon a press release on the latest
SARS
situation on the Chinese mainland. On May 11, 14 provinces reported
new SARS cases, of which, 6 provinces reported both new cases and
new suspected cases, 1 province reported new cases and 7 provinces
reported new suspected cases, and the remaining 17 provinces
reported no cases.
By
10:00 am May 11, 25 provinces have reported SARS cases. So far,
Hainan, Guizhou, Yunnan, Qinghai provinces, Tibet and Xinjiang
Uygur autonomous regions have not found any cases. Of the provinces
having reported suspected or confirmed SARS cases, Heilongjiang
Province still reports no diagnosed case; Shanghai, Anhui, Gansu,
Jiangsu, Hubei, Hunan provinces and Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region
reported less than 10 diagnosed cases respectively; Chongqing,
Zhejiang, Fujian, Liaoning, Jiangxi and Shandong provinces reported
less than 5 diagnosed cases respectively. Fujian Province has
reported no new case for 33 days; Huan Province has reported no new
case for 20 days; Shandong Province has reported no new case for 17
days; Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region has reported no new case for
9 days; Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region has reported no new case for
8 days; Jiangxi Province has reported no new case for 7 days, Hubei
Province has reported no new case for 5 days.
From 10:00 am May 10 to 10:00 am May 11, China reported 69 new
cases, 32 patients recovered and 5 deaths. Of the 69 cases, 39 used
to be suspected cases and now confirmed as SARS patients.
Of
these figures:
- Beijing reported 42 new cases (of which 21 used to be suspected
but now confirmed as SARS patients), 11 patients recovered and 4
deaths
- Tianjin reported 8 new cases (all of which used to be suspected
but now confirmed as SARS patients)
- Hebei reported 9 new cases (of which 5 used to be suspected but
now confirmed as SARS patients), 2 patients recovered
- Shanxi reported 6 new cases (of which 3 used to be suspected
but now confirmed as SARS patients), and 6 recovered
- Inner Mongolia reported 2 recovered and 1 death
- Jiangsu reported 1 new case (which used to be suspected but now
confirmed as SARS patients)
- Henan reported 1 recovered
- Guangdong reported 2 new cases (of which 1 used to be suspected
but now confirmed as SARS patients) and 9 recovered
- Shaanxi reported 1 recovered
- Gansu reported 1 new case
By 10:00 am May 11, China had a total of 4,948 SARS cases
(935 medical workers), which included 1,652 patients who had
recovered and been discharged from hospital and 240 deaths. Now
3,056 patients are receiving treatment in hospitals.
From 10:00 am May 10 to 10:00 am May 11, China also reported 145
new suspected cases, including 51 from Beijing, 9 from Tianjin, 4
from Hebei, 20 from Shanxi, 7 from Inner Mongolia, 3 from Liaoning,
2 from Shanghai, 1 each from Jiangsu, Anhui and Henan, 44 from
Guangdong, and 1 each from Chongqing and Shaanxi.
From 10:00 am May 10 to 10:00 am May 11, China reported 73
misdiagnosed suspected cases, of which, 24 from Guangdong, 16 from
Beijing, 9 from Tianjin, 8 from Shanxi, 3 each from Hebei, Inner
Mongolia and Anhui, 2 each from Sichuan and Shaanxi, 1 each from
Shanghai, Hubei and Gansu. By 10:00 am May 11, China had a total of
2,559 suspected cases.
(China.org.cn May 11, 2003)