Following are the latest statistics from China's Ministry of Health on severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) in the interior of China:

Between April 11 and 13, 33 new cases were reported in Guangdong Province in south China and 42 SARS patients in the province were discharged from hospital.

Shanxi Province in the north reported 47 new cases and three deaths during the same period, with two recoveries, while Beijing reporting nine new cases and seven recoveries, and the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region reporting 17 new cases and three deaths.

Three people in east China's Fujian Province were infected by SARS.

The cumulative number of SARS cases had reached 1,418, with 64 deaths. A total of 1,088 patients had been discharged from hospital.

(Xinhua News Agency April 14, 2003)